Do I still have to manually include matchmedia.js and respond.js with modernizr?

Question

The question is basically in the title: will the modernizr build tool include respond.js and/or matchmedia.js when I select media queries to be included (under extra)?

Or do I have to include it manually with Modernizr.load? (I've looked at the source, but I can't really tell whether respond.js is in there)

Answer 1

If you select the "Media Queries" option under "Extra" in the build tool, your Modernizr build will include a matchmedia.js-like function called Modernizr.mq() (see the documentation ). The code's basically the same as matchmedia as both were written by Paul Irish .

Respond.js isn't included in Modernizr, but Initializr can create an HTML5 Boilerplate build which includes Modernizr and Respond.js.