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by vyrotek 5309 days ago
Fantastic! I'm literally working right now on a large application that uses Dojo 1.6 extensively. I must say that I'm overall impressed with the framework. The selection and flexibility of the widgets is great. I've done plenty of jQuery UI in the past and I'm honestly done with it until they get some consistency issues resolved. Dojo definitely fills a need.

But, I wish Dojo was still a bit more straightforward to package up the various modules/widgets our project is using into a single .js file. For now the dynamic parsing with dojo.require works fine. But as the project grows it won't cut it anymore.

Congrats to the team :) (PS. When can we expect it to be available through the Googel CDN?)

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Havre you looked into the dojo build system? That's how you make your single minified js file. Pretty straightforward, I think? http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/build/
Yep, but sadly I've made a few attempts and failed miserably.

Perhaps I'm too spoiled by jQuery UI Builder. I'd much rather prefer something like this where I can just pick the widgets I know I'm using: http://jqueryui.com/download

Have a look at http://build.dojotoolkit.org/ (though I never used it myself, I'm using their command line build tool).
http://build.dojotoolkit.org/ should soon be updated for 1.7. The CDN will be available asap.
Wow, thank you! How did I miss this? You have no idea how happy this made me.
Pretty starightfoward until you hit a hard-to-google for problem. Yesterday my build process was crashing because I used Windows backslashes in a command line argument instead of the Unix slashes that it expected :(