How To : Organizing javascript in a asp.net core modularized application (modules in dlls)

[mkgn]

My Application is organized in a way that some features are working as a plugin. Each plugin has it's own APIs, Views, Static files etc.. I am using ViewLocationExpander to find the view files owned by plugins which is not in the standard location but in the plugins relative path. Example;

[Starting MVC Application]
|__MainLayOut
|__Modules
    |__Plugin1
        |_Binaries
        |_Views (has shared, _viewimports etc.. local to this module)
        |_wwwroot (has static files local to this module)
    |
    |__Plugin2
        |_Binaries
        |_Views (has shared, _viewimports etc.. local to this module)
        |_wwwroot (has static files local to this module)

As you see in above structure if you delete the a plugin from the Modules folder entire plugin related features will get deactivated. So code for that plugin is 100% within the plugin directory.

Now I am planning to use RequireJS and try to modularize javascripts that is needed by each plugin. However the doucment says:

The requirejs entrypoint for each page will be loaded from ~/Scripts/Controllers/{area}/{controller}/{action}

But in my case RequireJS should be able to load the JS file not from the primary ~/Scripts folder but the /wwwroot/js folder which is inside the Plugin folder (\Modules\Plugin1\wwwroot\js). If I can get this done (May be like ViewLocationExpander), I can have a 100% modularized app.

Is this possible?

[davidsk]

I think the section titled "OVERRIDING ENTRYPOINT RESOLUTION" here: http://requirejsnet.veritech.io/setup.html may be of help. Essentially you can implement your own logic for locating an Entrypoint script

[mkgn]

I forgot to mention that I am on .Net 5 and this is not yet ported to support it officially right? However I found : https://github.com/davidsk/RequireJSDotNet/blob/RequireJsDotNet_Core1.0/MVC6/Startup.cs which seems to use the resolver you mention above. Is this what you were talking about? Do you have a plan to officially support .Net 5?

[davidsk]

I'm not a maintainer on the RequirejsDotNet project, I've just contributed some updates to the code. I did work on changes to support .net core but, as you can see from the branch, I haven't looked at it in a while and asp.net core has evolved quite a bit since then. I'm not sure how much of that code is compatible with asp.net 5. I expect the way this should be done in asp.net 5 (and how RequireJsDotNet would do it if upgraded) would be to add a middleware component to the request pipeline which could inspect the route and inject the correct script on the page.

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