Generate source maps on build

[Benny Thomas]

Source maps are the new big thing. Requirejs has support for source maps and Aurajs should maybe utilize this. The documentation shows how simple it is to add the feature. I don't know if it has any implications on the build, but it seemed to generated the source maps just fine when I added the needed configuration element.

To utilize this we only need to add the following highlighted line to the requirejs section in the grunt file.

options: {
baseUrl: '.',
optimize: 'uglify2',
preserveLicenseComments: false,
generateSourceMaps: true,

It might need some testing in a browser to see if it works as intended.

[Sasha Rudan]

I surely support that as default! :) +1

[Benny Thomas]

I have now tested this, and it seems to work well. I was able to add breakpoints in the code and look at the inner workings of Aurajs even when I was using the minified version.

Howto:
I installed first Aurajs with the command bower install aura. Afterwards I executed the commands npm install && bower install --save && grunt build in the bower_components/aura folder. In my require config I added paths: { aura: 'bower_components/aura/dist' } before I ran my example.

This is how chrome sees the minified file after I added source maps to it.

I ran this example with grunt-contrib-jasmine and grunt-template-jasmine-requirejs using the following configuration.

    jasmine: {
      lpapi: {
        options: {
          specs: 'spec/lpapi/**/*_spec.js',
          helpers: ['spec/libs/sinon-1.5.2.js', 'spec/libs/jasmine-sinon.js'],
          keepRunner: true,
          template: require('grunt-template-jasmine-requirejs'),
          templateOptions: {
            mainConfigFile: 'lib/config.js',
            requireConfig: {
              baseUrl: 'lib/',
              paths: {
                'jquerylib': '../bower_components/jquery/jquery',
                'underscorelib': '../bower_components/underscore/underscore',
                'textlib': '../bower_components/requirejs-text/text',
                'aura': '../bower_components/aura/dist/'
              },
              shim: {
                'jquerylib': {
                  exports: '$'
                },
                'underscorelib': {
                  exports: '_',
                }
              },
              map: {
                '*': {
                  'underscore': 'underscorelib',
                  'jquery': 'jquerylib',
                  'text': 'textlib'
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    },