Require JS files similar to require_tree about gulp-rails-pipeline

[bhgames]

@greypants I've tried using require-dir so I dont have to manually include every directive, controller, and service file in my app(of which there are nearly 100.) It doesn't work because fs doesn't work on the frontend. How do I require all the files?

[greypants]

It's actually not RequireJS, it's CommonJS style modules. Yeah, part of the point of modules is that you don't have to namespace anymore - nothing is exposed on the window, and everything is explicitly required.

# javascripts/models/monkey.js.coffee
module.exports = class Monkey
  constructor: (@name) ->
    # do some setup

# javascripts/models/zoo.js.coffee
Monkey = require('./monkey.js.coffee')

module.exports = class Zoo
  constructor: () ->
    monkey = new Monkey("Charley")
    # ...

I wrote a little blurb on modules on my gulp-starter wiki: https://github.com/greypants/gulp-starter/wiki/What-is-a-Module%3F

That might help. If you reaaally wanted to rely on globals and namespaces, you can just change App to window.App and use the require-dir module. But that kind of misses the point.

[bhgames]

Is it really realistically expected of JS developers to include each one of the hundreds of files they inevitably have in a large project, one at a time? I have been stuck for hours and feel I am missing something here.