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RequireJS shim config doesn't recognize paths

So I am using requirejs in my project and I have a main folder with another folder in it. The main folder has the main.js and index.html in which there is a script tag with a data-main attribute pointing to the main.js. Inside the main.js, I have the require.config set up before proceeding with my require() call with all the dependencies. In the configuration, the baseUrl is set to "./". I want to reference a file inside the second folder using the shim config. However, when I try to do this, it gives the me the error that the file is not found. If I move the file that I want from the second folder into the main folder and then use the shim config it works perfectly fine. Only when I try to specify a path like so:
shim: {
"Other Files/fileIWant": {exports: 'whatever'}
}
it doesn't work. How can I use a path directory with the shim config?

How to optimize a subset of JavaScript files created as RequireJS modules

I have single-page web application that uses RequireJS to organize and structure JavaScript code. Inside the app, I have some JS files that I want to optimize using r.js because they belong to an API that will be consumed by my customers. So, I just want to optimize those files and keep the rest of the code as it is now.
This is my application structure:
app
main.js
many other files and folders
scripts
myAPI
app.js
many other files and folders
require.js
jquery.js
build.js
index.htm
All the JavaScript code is located under the app and scripts folders. As I mentioned before, all those files are defined as RequireJS modules. This is how the main.js looks now:
require.config({
baseUrl: 'scripts',
paths: {
base: 'myAPI/base',
proxy: 'myAPI/proxyObject',
localization: 'myAPI/localization',
app: '../app',
}
});
require(['myAPI/app'],
function (app) {
//app.init....
}
);
As you can see, in the paths configuration I'm defining some aliases that point to myAPI (the folder I want to optimize).
This is how I reference RequireJS from the index.htm file:
<script data-main="app/main" src="scripts/require.js"></script>
This is the build file I created for r.js (scripts/build.js):
({
baseUrl: '.',
out: 'build/myAPI.js',
name: 'myAPI/app',
include: ['some modules'],
excludeShallow: ['some modules defined in the app folder'],
mainConfigFile: '../app/main.js',
optimize: 'uglify2',
optimizeCss: 'none'
})
The optimized file is generated, but I have some challenges trying to use it:
How do I reference that file from the app?
The dependencies to myAPI modules are broken now. RequireJS doesn't find the modules defined in myAPI.
What can I do to keep the aliases defined in require.config.paths working?
Could you please help me with some suggestions or feedback for this situation?
Thanks!!

After doing research, I could solve my problem. I based my solution in this Github project created by James Burke: https://github.com/requirejs/example-libglobal.
First, I had to remove all the dependencies to myAPI individual modules, and create an object that centralizes the access to any internal dependency. Then, I created a r.js script to generate a single file for myAPI. That file is the one that will consumed by the other JS files. That single file can be referenced as a global object or as an AMD module, as James Burke shows in the Github project.
The aliases defined in require.config.paths were no longer necessary.

How to use same config file for serving modules with requirejs and using r.js on the server side to concatenate and minify?

I am working on a project that uses requirejs to dynamically load modules from a web browser. Some of the modules are vendor files, e.g. jQuery, which are all installed into a folder /project/root/lib/ via bower. This project's modules are located in a folder /project/root/components/. So I have a requirejs config, components/main.js, that looks something like this:
requirejs.config({
baseUrl: '/components',
paths: {
jquery: '/lib/jquery/jquery',
}
});
This way, when a vendor module is requested, require finds it by using the mappings defined in paths, while all other modules are located relative to components.
I also want to use r.js to perform concatenation and minification and reduce all javascript files to simply app.js for use in production. I was able to successfully perform this task with r.js -o build.js. Here is what build.js looks like:
({
baseUrl:'components',
out: 'js/app.js',
name: 'app',
paths: {
jquery: '../lib/jquery/jquery'
}
})
However, because there are dozens of vendor file paths defined in my require.js config (main.js), I don't want to have to replicate the configuration across two different files. I would rather use a single config file. The problem is that the paths defined in main.js are absolute (/lib/..., /components), because they're URL paths, but the paths in build.js need to be relative (../lib/..., ./components), because they're filesystem paths. Is there a way to reconcile these differences and define the paths only in main.js, which I then I load in using mainConfigFile in build.js? I tried using the require config called map in build.js, but this method required that I defined a new mapping for each module, which is just as bad as re-defining all of the paths. I want a blanket mapping, essentially.
Is there a method to consolidate my config files to avoid duplicate path definitions?

There is nothing that requires using absolute paths in the configuration passed to RequireJS. RequireJS interprets paths that are relative using baseUrl as the starting point so this should work:
requirejs.config({
baseUrl: '/components',
paths: {
jquery: '../lib/jquery/jquery',
}
});
RequireJS will perform the final path computation for jquery by merging /components with ../lib/jquery/jquery, which resolves to /lib/jquery/jquery, which is exactly the same as the absolute path that was there originally.

RequireJS Config mapping whole directories

Is it possible to map a whole directory the node_modules directory for example to src/lib/ in the require config?
Sample Project:
project/
project/node_modules
project/src/
project/src/lib/

In RequireJS you actually can configure paths that points to a folder. And, you can name your path whatever you want. For example, if you have a folder named node_modules and you have some libs in there including jquery, you can configure a path like
require.config({
paths: {
'lib' : '/path_to_node_module_folder'
}
});
and later in your module you can require jquery like
define(['lib/jquery'], function($){
....
});

Using r.js with Angular and Require

I am having issues setting up r.js when using require in my angular application. I am new to using AMD so it may be an easy fix. Unforunately the directory structure must remain as is because of the requirement of ability to add more clients using the same Default components.
The error I get is that it can't find the controller dependencies. It is triyng to reference them from Client#1/Directory_For_Prod_Packs/Angular/Default/_Controllers/.js. So essentially it is adding the whole absolute path at the end of where the build file is at, or at least that what it seems like to me. Any help would be amazing. Essentially I'd just like to either have one pack of all my directives, services, controllers, etc. Or packs of controllers.js then directives.js and so forth.
Here is my directory structure.
Angular
Lib
angular.js
Default
Controllers
_Controllers.js //pack of controllers
.js //all the separate Controllers
Directives
_Directives.js
.js
Client#1
main.js //require config
app.js
build.js // r.js build config
And this is my build.js for r.js
({
baseUrl: '../../lib/Angular',
dir: "../../Client#1/ProductionBuild",
paths: {
"controllers": '../../Default/_Controllers/_Controllers',
},
modules: [
{
name: "controllers"
}
]
})
And finally this is my _Controller.js which
define(['angular',
'../../Default/_Controllers/controller1.js',
'../../Default/_Controllers/controller2.js'],
function(angular) {
'use strict';
var dependencies = ['controller1',
'controller2',];
angular.module('app.controllers', dependencies);
}
);

I'm not sure what exactly is the problem (the directory structure and the ../.. seem not to match, though I may be mistaken), but try setting the build.js properties as:
baseUrl: The folder that contains the scripts, relative to the HTML page that loads them, not relative to build.js
dir: Build output folder, relative to build.js
appDir: Application folder. It probably contains an index.html that bootstraps the scripts of your application. The folder pointed to by the baseUrl configuration property must be under this! And this is relative to build.js.
Take extra care about baseUrl, those ../.. look suspicious. It is relative to the index.html, not build.js.