jrburke
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10 years ago It is suggested that if an external dependency is needed, the almond-built code uses a UMD-style wrapper to grab that dependency, then just do a define() internally for that outside module value to bring it into almond.
No plans to add this by default as almond is specialized for "all-in-one" builds that are self contained. Please feel free though to keep a fork, and feel free to mention it in the AMD API shims wiki page.
When almond can’t find a dependency, see if we can find it using requirejs or in the global scope before throwing an error.
This allows one to compile a project that has some external dependencies, and still use it with or without using requirejs. For example, building a jquery plugin module.