RequireJS and text plugin Load timeout for modules

Question

I am having some problems getting the RequireJS text plugin to work. This is possibly a path related issue (or something similarly obvious) but I can't solve it because neither the chrome console (with xhr turned on) nor firebug is giving me any info other than

Uncaught Error: Load timeout for modules: text 
http://requirejs.org/docs/errors.html#timeout

I am quite sure that the paths are OK but I cant find any other explanation. Does somebody have an idea how to debug this?

I am using node.js and express on the server side and backbone and jQuery on the client end. All of these get loaded correctly with RequireJS.

Answer 1

I'm guessing it's a path issue. I have the same setup (node/express and backbone) and it seems to be working for me. Here is my main.js file:

require.config({
  paths: {
    jquery: 'libs/jquery-1.7.1.min',
    underscore: 'libs/underscore',
    backbone: 'libs/backbone',
    text: 'libs/text',
    templates: '../views',
    persist: 'libs/persist/persist'
  }
});
require([
  'app'
], function(App){
  App.initialize();
});

and here is how I call the plugin from within a module:

define([
  'jquery',
  'underscore',
  'backbone',
  'collections/sub_elements',
  'collections/elements',
  'views/element',
  'text!../../../views/partials/_elements.html'
], function($, _, Backbone, sub_elementsCollection, collection, view,     template){

  var elementsView = Backbone.View.extend({
    // ... //
  });

  return elementsView;
});