What are people using generator-angular-require for?

[aaronallport]

What are people using generator-angular-require for?

[juristr]

Sure, I work for a e-government company and we've been developing JavaScript SPA for about 2 years now. As of now we use JavaScriptMVC/CanJS. For a new project we've decided to AngularJS (for different reasons).
As the technical lead of the project, I'm currently building the application infrastructure. Since we definitely need to have a modular approach (with lazy loading) I've decided to use RequireJS. Wanting to use Yeoman as our scaffolding solution directly led to your fork here 😄

[scottnath]

I work in the entertainment industry and we've mainly been using it for prototyping. I am currently trying to get it as our main dev environment for one of our sites. It's as a test-case to see if using requirejs is the way we want to go as well as the fantastic functionality of building out each piece.

[aaronallport]

Thats for the feedback guys. If you actually decide to take it forward to something you actually use, I'd be super chuffed of course!!

If you take it forward, would either of you be happy for me to share your company names on the README? I'm keen to keep the momentum up (which has been in no small part thanks to good folks like yourselves), and would love to show that companies are using this - it helps build a degree of confidence around what we're putting out there to the open source community and improving.

If you decide not to, thats absolutely fine too of course. To be honest, I'm simply glad that something I've put out there is worthy of other people spending some time with it.

[robpataki]

Hi, I hope I'm not too late to the discussion :) I work as a freelance developer and for one of my latest projects for Oakley (http://disruptogr.am) I decided to go with the angular-require generator, because I wanted to stick to a structured modular approach (which RequireJS offers), but I also wanted to make use of the awesomeness of AngularJS. This generator (v0.1.13 I used) have worked very well with my preferred stack (Grunt/Bower/Yeoman/Compass), so I've been very pleased with it. I'm more than happy to be in the README file of course.

[aaronallport]

Never too late - what a fantastic thing disruptogram is!

Please also raise issues for things you'd like to see added/changed. I'm trying to keep in sync with the official yeoman angular generator, whilst at the same time moving to the "new way" of authoring generators (although I've got some weird Travis CI errors that I cannot reproduce locally), so things are in flux at the moment, but I'm keen to keep on building up generator-angualar-require

[briantopping]

Hi Aaron, thanks for the spectacular work! I am just re-learning JS for the third time in several years. I come from a modular JVM background and am interested in scaffolding that would allow for the modules of the application to be maintained as separate projects, included via Require. I don't know if that's practical, but the goal would be that the application would be built on core assets that define layout in the main module and support modules that could be shared through Bower with wildly different projects.

For instance, use of a webmail module by a project under development would start with a 'bower install' of the webmail module. In the build, bower-requirejs would make the module available by reference, then the references would be used inside the main application as required to evoke the functionality of the module.

Besides the obvious benefit of growing an ecosystem of modules, modules might be able to be served from CDN directly. Further, sensitive modules could be stored behind protected paths on the web server, reducing the attack surface area of the application.

I would love to hear any feedback you might have on these ideas!

[aaronallport]

Brian,

That sounds interesting! I'd be keen to learn more. Have you got a repo spun up for your project?

Cheers,

Aaron