Dojo build AT run time

Question

I am building several dojo custom builds using profiles,I found that extremely useful, but it takes literally one hour to create my builds. I would like that my application would "fetch" only what needed. Here is my question:

Is it possible to have profiles at run time?

Let's say my profile (called my.test.profile ) has dojo.data ,

dojo.ItemFileWriteStore

Eg Instead of calling

dojo.require("dojo.data") dojo.require(dojo.ItemFileWriteStore)

->

dojo.require("my.test.profile")

Is this possible to do in dojo?

Answer 1

You can create an intermediate layer file to bundle up requires:

//mylayer.js
dojo.provide('mylayer');
dojo.require(...);
dojo.require(...);
//...

So you can require only it instead of that bunch of stuff

//my_other_file.js
dojo.erquire('mylayer');

It is also possible to use the layerDependencies settings on the profile to make it so that the code is compiled into seperate layers instead of just a single blob (this if you want to be able to lazy-load a part that is not often used)

I don't know how to make the build process faster or what is the propper way to do this with the new AMD modules though.