Request: Break Velocity Into Modules

[chchrist]

Hello
Now velocity is a single big file and it is difficult for many devs to work on it. Could you break it to multiple modules (commonJS, AMD)?

Cheers

[kc-dot-io]

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@julianshapiro consider component.io for modularity. At worst you should have a component.json file, but if you plan to break it out further, component makes for a pretty robust hierarchy. We use it religiously. Happy to run you through it in our next meet up.

[jtangelder]

A simple way how i like to work is just to simply concat the files. So you don't get the overhead of the umd tools. Did this for Hammer.js and am still happy with it :-)

[julianshapiro]

Jorik,

First off, Hammer is AWESOME.

Second, I actually prefer your suggestion over the others. I will start doing this beginning this weekend.

Meanwhile, I'm also going to take Kyle up on his dinner offer to hear more about component :)

[jtangelder]

I'm glad to hear that! If you like, you can take a look at the gruntfile I use for Hammer, contains some basic logic that could be useful. Also i find jshint and jscs very useful for consistent code when people are going to contribute.

[fritx]

Personally, I recommend gulp instead of grunt for velocity ;)

[julianshapiro]

This will be happening once we drop the jQuery dependency. Thanks for the suggestions, guys!

We'll be using @jtangelder's approach to grunt concatenation.