How do I load third party JavaScript from a CDN when using RequireJS?
This will load jQuery from a CDN:
<script src="http://requirejs.org/docs/release/2.1.5/comments/require.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> require.config({ paths: { "jquery": "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min" }, waitSeconds: 40 });</script><div id="message">hello</div><script type="text/javascript"> require( ["jquery"], function ($) { alert($.fn.jquery + "\n" + $("#message").text()); } );</script>This page from the requirejs docs shows how to eliminate a path from the optimised build. Basically use the empty: scheme. Excerpt here:
node ../../r.js -o name=main out=main-built.js baseUrl=. paths.jquery=empty: