Minifying RequireJS Javascript codebase to a single file

Question

I am new to RequireJS and maybe this is an already discussed issue but I could not find a clear answer or opinion about this.

I have an application working with RequireJ

Answer 1

What you want is the RequireJS Optimizer.

The optimizer does the following (from the docs):

• Combines related scripts together into build layers and minifies them via UglifyJS (the default) or Closure Compiler (an option when using Java).
• Optimizes CSS by inlining CSS files referenced by @import and removing comments.

Here's one article on the topic for further reference.

Have a look also at r.js, the command line tool which includes the optimizer. Using r.js, you can generate an optimized build from an application file main.js with just:

node r.js -o build.js

where build.js is a requirejs config file containing your build profile (baseUrl, paths, etc.).