Ditto is a webapp that auto-magically resolves a project's AMD and legacy dojo.require dependencies. It's meant to ease the creation of custom build profiles by showing developers all explicitly required modules in a given project.
Ditto works by traversing a project's file tree and finding all modules that are explicitly required. The modules can be AMD modules or legacy Dojo modules, and can be required anywhere in any file within a project. Ditto will format all dependcies in standard dependency string format, giving the user an instant view into a project's dependencies.
Ditto does not traverse the entire dependency tree. It will only list the modules that are required within your project. For example, if I require a dijit.form.FilteringSelect within my project, Ditto will only list "dijit/form/FilteringSelect", and not all dependencies of the FilteringSelect widget itself. Any worthwhile optimizer takes care of all implicit dependencies, so these shouldn't be included in your build profiles anyways!
Ditto includes several options to refine what modules it returns during analysis. As mentioned, Ditto optionally supports listing all dojo.requires in addition to standard AMD modules. I wanted to make this really powerful for the Dojo community in particular; adding legacy support was a must. A user can also tell Ditto to only list custom modules, nothing from the Dojo, Dijit, or Dojox packages, even if explicitly required. Finally, a user can skip particular folders altogether. This is very useful when a library is included in your project. Again, think Dojo. If I had dojo/, dojox/, and dijit/ locally in my project, I'd get tons of modules I don't care about in my dependency list.
Ditto can be run locally in a php environment:
- Run the following commands
git clone [email protected]:bitpshr/ditto.git
cd ditto
git submodule init
git submodule update
./build.sh
- Deploy the contents of
dist/to a php-enabled http server - Party
Ditto requires a standards-compliant browser that supports HTML5 File Access. Use the latest version of Safari, Firefox, or Chrome and you should be fine. I plan to implement regular old 1995-style file upload functionality for older browsers (I’m looking at you, IE). I could definitely use some help to determine specific version cutoffs.
If you experience any issues using Ditto, or would like to see new functionality added, drop a line on our Issue Tracker.
https://github.com/bitpshr/ditto/issues
Ditto is licensed under the same terms as the Dojo Toolkit. Consult the individual projects for additional licensing information.