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Using requireJS with angular; Cannot read property 'module' of undefined

Ok, there is a bunch of questions with similar titles, but none of them helped me solve my problem so here it is.
I am trying to use Angular with RequireJS; I am getting the error message Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'module' of undefined which is referring to the angular object within the angular-routes.js file. This suggests to me that requireJS is trying to load angular-routes before angular has loaded. I was under the impression that this wouldn't happen because I have set 'angular-route' as dependant on 'angular' within the shim. Can anyone spot what I am doing wrong here?
// Setup requireJS
require.config({
baseUrl : "scripts",
packages : [
{ "name":"angular", "location":"../bower_components/angular", "main":"angular"},
{ "name":"angular-route", "location":"../bower_components/angular-route", "main":"angular-route"},
{ "name":"angular-animate", "location":"../bower_components/angular-animate", "main":"angular-animate"},
{ "name":"angular-storage", "location":"../bower_components/angular-storage/dist", "main":"angular-storage"},
{ "name":"jquery", "location":"../bower_components/jquery/dist", "main":"jquery"}
],
shim:{
'angular' : { exports : 'angular', deps : ['jquery'] },
'angular-route' : { deps : ['angular'] },
'angular-animate' : { deps : ['angular'] },
'angular-storage' : { deps : ['angular'] },
}
});
// Load app files
function loadApp($, app)
{
angular.element(document).ready(function(){
angular.bootstrap(document, ['mealPlannerApp']);
});
}
requirejs(['app'], loadApp);
My app.js file is as follows
(function() {
// Declare AMD module with dependencies
define(['angular', 'angular-route', 'routes'],
function(config)
{
var app = angular.module('mealPlannerApp', ['ngRoute', 'ngAnimate', 'ngAnimate']);
app.config(config);
});
}());

Packages are great for your internal packages, I haven’t tried to load main AngularJS files as them.
Please read http://jonathancreamer.com/require-js-packages-for-building-large-scale-angular-applications/ for some better clarification and examples than change config section to something like this. Major change is replacement of packages with paths
Please also consider to change variables to camelCase style
require.config({
paths: {
angular: '../bower_components/angular/angular',
'angular-route': '../bower_components/angular-route/angular-route',
'angular-animate': '../bower_components/angular-route/angular-animate',
'angular-storage': '../bower_components/angular-route/angular-storage'
},
shim: {
'angular' : { exports : 'angular', deps : ['jquery'] },
'angular-route' : { deps : ['angular'] },
'angular-animate' : { deps : ['angular'] },
'angular-storage' : { deps : ['angular'] },
},
priority: [
"angular"
]
});

Dependency traces failed/skipped by grunt-contrib-requirejs build

On build of this requirejs config using grunt-contrib-requirejs,
require.config({
baseUrl : "js",
shim : {
'ember' : {
deps : ['handlebars', 'jquery'],
exports : 'Ember'
},
'bootstrap' : ['jquery'] ,
'ember-data' : ['ember'],
'handlebars' : {
exports : 'Handlebars'
}
},
paths : {
/* APPLICATION */
'App' : 'app/ember-mock/app',
'router' : 'app/ember-mock/router',
'helper' : 'app/ember-mock/helper',
'module' : 'app/ember-mock/module',
'store' : 'app/ember-mock/store',
/* LIBRARIES */
*****
***** //other deps goes here
*****
},
**** //other options goes here
});
require([
'App',
'store',
'router',**** //other requires goes here
], function(){
});
my gruntfile.js file ,
module.exports = function(grunt) {
'use strict';
grunt.initConfig({
pkg : grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
requirejs : {
compile : {
options : {
baseUrl : 'js',
name : 'app/ember-mock/configuration/config',
mainConfigFile : 'js/app/ember-mock/configuration/config.js',
out : 'build/js/build.js',
optimize : 'uglify2',
inlintText : true,
findNestedDependencies : true
}
}
}
});
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-requirejs');
grunt.registerTask('default', [ 'requirejs' ]);
};
And my router.js file
define([ "App" ], function(EmberMockApp) {
EmberMockApp.Router.map(function() {
this.resource("app", {
path : "/"
});
this.resource('home');
this.resource('about');
this.resource('blog');
this.resource('connect');
});
});
the router.js file is not traced as dependency by grunt-contrib-requirejs and skipped. Because of this no custom routers are registerd in ember app so emberjs is looking for default routes, so how to let grunt-contrib-require trace for router.js.

How to load JSON.js library with Require JS in order to make a Backbone app work in IE7?

I have managed to make my Backbone app work with IE8 - IE Edge... Yey:)
The last stone is IE7 - I get the following Backbone error:
'JSON' is undefined - file: backbone.js
And there is some part of the backbone library code highlighted by IE's console:
s.data=JSON.stringify(i.attrs||e.toJSON(i)
From what I read, I have to load JSON2 or JSON3 library because IE7 does not have it.
Ok, googled and go the following library - JSON 3:
http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/json3/3.2.6/json3.min.js
Now, I use require js to load my application, and I have no idea how to integrate this with my app config.
What are it's dependencies, what does it export?
Here is my config for require js:
/**
* Config.
*/
require.config({
paths: {
"jquery" : "libs/jquery",
"underscore" : "libs/underscore",
"backbone" : "libs/backbone",
"text" : "libs/require/text",
"global" : "libs/global",
templates: '../templates'
},
shim: {
backbone: {
deps: ["underscore", "jquery"],
exports: "Backbone"
},
underscore: {
exports: '_'
},
text : {
exports : 'text'
}
},
global : {
deps: ["jquery"],
exports : 'Global'
}
});
require([
'jquery',
'underscore',
'backbone',
'router',
'global'
], function ($, _, Backbone, Router) {
// Compatibility override, add a close function for the Backbone views.
var router = new Router();
Backbone.history.start();
});
Any ideas?

First add the json library to your path config:
paths: {
"json": "http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/json3/3.2.6/json3.min.js",
"jquery" : "libs/jquery",
"underscore" : "libs/underscore",
"backbone" : "libs/backbone",
"text" : "libs/require/text",
"global" : "libs/global",
templates: '../templates'
},
The json library has no dependencies and exports a global variable JSON. You will need to make the backbone library depend on the json library, and load the JSON library with a shim config. See below:
shim: {
json: {
exports: 'JSON'
},
backbone: {
deps: ["underscore", "jquery", "json"],
exports: "Backbone"
},
underscore: {
exports: '_'
},
text: {
exports: 'text'
}
}

Correct way to set up Marionette Js with core AMD build?

I am learning Marionett on the side, and am trying to stick to the core amd build and not shim marionett. here's my require config:
require.config({
paths : {
backbone : 'lib/backbone',
underscore : 'lib/underscore',
jquery : 'lib/jquery',
marionette : 'lib/backbone.marionette',
'backbone.wreqr' : 'lib/backbone.wreqr',
'backbone.babysitter' : 'lib/backbone.babysitter',
hbs : 'lib/hbs',
Handlebars : 'lib/Handlebars'
},
shim : {
jquery : {
exports : 'jQuery'
},
underscore : {
exports : '_'
},
backbone : {
deps : ['jquery', 'underscore'],
exports : 'Backbone'
}
},
hbs: {
disableI18n: true,
disableHelpers: true
}
});
I am getting Backbone is undefined in the application module of marionette when I create an application module as follows:
define(["marionette", "views/CatCompositeView"], function (Marionette, CatCompositeView) {
var app = new Marionette.Application();
app.addRegions({
mainRegion: '#content'
});
app.addInitializer(function(options){
var catCompositeView = new CatCompositeView({
collection: options.cats
});
app.mainRegion.show(catCompositeView);
});
return app;
});
Any ideas? I am able to get it all working when shimming marionette so I'm ok for now, but would like to load it all individually.
UPDATE: Here's how I ended up doing this in my require config:
require.config({
paths : {
backbone : 'lib/backbone',
underscore : 'lib/underscore',
jquery : 'lib/jquery',
marionette : 'lib/backbone.marionette',
'backbone.wreqr' : 'lib/backbone.wreqr',
'backbone.babysitter' : 'lib/backbone.babysitter',
hbs : 'lib/hbs',
Handlebars : 'lib/Handlebars'
},
shim : {
jquery : {
exports : 'jQuery'
},
underscore : {
exports : '_'
},
backbone : {
deps : ['jquery', 'underscore'],
exports : 'Backbone'
},
'backbone.wreqr': {
deps : ['backbone']
},
'backbone.babysitter': {
deps : ['backbone']
}
},
hbs: {
disableI18n: true,
disableHelpers: true
}
});

You need to shim Backbone.Marionnette too:
marionette : {
deps: ["backbone", "underscore"],
exports: "Backbone.Marionette"
}

See update above. I needed to add backbone as a dependency for wreqr and babysitter to load them individually.

RequireJS optimizer with coffeescript

I'm running on severals issues when I'm trying to run the node RequireJS on my project.
This is my folder structure :
-root
-/src
-App.coffee
-/static
-/vendor
-/plugin
-r.js
-coffee-script.js
-/lib
-jquery.js
-main.js
-build.js
This is my build.js file :
({
appDir : './',
baseUrl : './static/js/',
dir : '../public',
optimize : 'uglify',
exclude : ['coffee-script'],
stubModules : ['cs'],
paths: {
// Libraries
'modernizr' : 'vendor/modernizr',
'jquery' : ['//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min', 'vendor/jquery'],
'jqueryui' : 'vendor/jquery-ui',
'backbone' : 'vendor/backbone',
'underscore' : 'vendor/underscore',
// Plugins
'plugin' : 'plugin/plugin',
// RequireJS
'cs' : 'plugin/cs',
'coffee-script' : 'plugin/coffee-script'
},
shim: {
'jqueryui' : ['jquery'],
'underscore': {
exports: '_'
},
'backbone': {
deps: ['underscore', 'jquery'],
exports: 'Backbone'
}
},
modules: [{
name: "main"
}]
})
And finally this is my main.js file :
require({
baseUrl : '../../src/',
paths: {
cs: '../../cs',
'coffee-script': '../../coffee-script'
}
}, ['cs!App']);
I'm getting always error related to incorrect path setting and I can't figured out where I'm wrong.
Thanks !

The solution below worked in my case. It's a common issue with non-amd modules imported with shim or wrapped manually (for instance this one, with custom paths).
Try avoiding relative paths and use absolute 1 paths instead.
A dependency called from an aliased module will use its current location to find the required module.
require.config(
{
locale: window.GIS.i18n.locale,
deps: ['cs!modules/main'],
paths: {
'i18n' : 'i18n',
'underscore' : 'libs/underscore',
'cs' : 'libs/cs', // there's no '../something/else/libs/cs'
'CoffeeScript' : 'libs/coffeescript', // ibidem.
'text' : 'libs/text',
// ... other amd module aliases go here...
},
shim:{
// ...
}
});
define(['cs!modules/main'], function(){});
1 Of course, these are not absolute paths per se, but they are relative to the root of your module tree.