I’ve been given a design library from a large cooperate client built utilizing Bootstrap 3 and Require.js. It’s very robust and well-built with the various scripts using Require.js to load jQuery. Problem is, Drupal has already loaded jQuery and the double load is causing some items to fail. If I remove all the Require.js calls, Drupal jQuery stuff works great. If I remove the base Drupal jQuery file, all the stuff using the Require.js stuff works great. Here’ are options I have considered:
- Stop jQuery from loading with Drupal, use require to load jQuery on
every page - I haven’t tried this yet, but it just seems wrong. I
think I can remove jQuery with hook_library_alter() in my theme?
Wondering if anyone has tried this… My front end and admin screens
actually use 2 different themes, so I think I'd have to modify both. - Stop jQuery from loading with Require.js – I tried this and none of the other libraries that are loaded with require.js can find query if it’s not loaded with Require.js, so I don’t think this option works. This is my first time using require.js so maybe there is some fun fix for this I haven't figured out?
- Add all libraries to the site with Drupal – This seems like a lot of messy work as I would have to remove all the require.js dependencies in the library, and there is an expectation that we not modify the library/framework so implementing new releases is easy.
Any other recommendations?