Loading jQuery, Underscore and Backbone using RequireJS 2.0.1 and shim

Question

I am experimenting a little bit with RequireJS 2.0.1. My goal is to load correctly jQuery, Underscore and Backbone. From the original RequireJS doc I d

Answer 1

Can you actually avoid "shimming" jquery in the original example (where the path to jquery is set to 'libs/jquery'), since jquery adds the name "jquery" in their amd module definition?

define( "jquery", [], function () { return jQuery; } );

My experience is that you need to put jquery.js in the baseurl directory to get the jquery amd module defined as expected, or "shim" it like in the original example.