Django-pipeline and javascript dependencies

Question

I'm working on a Django project that uses Django-pipeline for assets, and I keep having issues where I define something in one javascript file that is required by another file, but the second file gets loaded before the first and thus the second file fails to load properly. I can mess with the order things get included into PIPELINE_JS but this is pretty awkward to deal with. In most languages you can do things like require foo to make sure that foo is defined but it seems like with javascript and django-pipeline this isn't possible. I've looked into RequireJS a little but I'm not sure how whether I can use it with django-pipeline. What should I do in this case? What do others who use django-pipeline or django in general do for javascript dependency management?

As a side note, I'm actually using Coffeescript, not straight Javascript, but that doesn't seem to help things any. In rails I could do #= require 'foo' to require another coffeescript file but that seems to be linked to the rails asset pipeline.

Answer 1

The only way to do this is to order 'source_filenames' list accordingly, also remember that those file will be concatenated in this order when running collectstatic.

Pipeline will respect this order, it will also avoid duplicate so that your are safe when doing this :

'base.coffee',
'*.coffee', 

There is no "require" syntax for now in django-pipeline. Hope this helps.