UMD distribution

[dustinfarris]

This would be useful for me, maybe others who don't want to use browserify/webpack

[mattkrick]

you mean umd? i'm hesitant because it seems like everybody (including the upcoming ES spec) is using common js. can you lay out a use case?

[dustinfarris]

It's just that: avoid need for browserify which would simplify the build requirements my own library places on its users.

redux does this as well: https://github.com/reactjs/redux/blob/master/package.json#L30

and some reasoning here: https://github.com/reactjs/redux#installation

Recent Ember includes a nice way to import UMD from node_modules which would make life easier for me as a maintainer. All until Ember has a bona fide solution to importing CJS for the browser, which is in the works but who knows how far out.

[mattkrick]

ah gotcha, so all you really need is an script to build it?

[dustinfarris]

i think so. that way my users can pull in whatever specific version of cashay they want, and i'll just grab the UMD dist for the build.

This is how I'm doing it in ember-redux:

https://github.com/dustinfarris/ember-redux/blob/remove-browserify/index.js#L30

:point_up: that adds the UMD dist that redux provides to the projects vendor files, then Ember provides a way to transform it to an AMD named package so it can be imported:

import redux from 'redux'

[dustinfarris]

Found a broccoli-webpack plugin that can do this as part of my own build! We're cookin' with gas!