Add CONTRIBUTING.md

The third party libraries needs to be minified and combined into a single script to reduce the number of HTTP requests.
This can be probably done by modifying the r.js optimizer.

see http://ssssnakes.com/smoke/ as a candidate

qunit.js 1.9.0

ReferenceError: testEnvironment is not defined

config.currentModuleTestEnviroment = testEnvironment; <= line 307

I want to use Boilerplatejs for jquery mobile development but I got it difficult. Do you think it is appropriate? How can I proceed? Any help will be appreciated!

Theming is currently done via a theme component. For faster loading theme is defined on the index.html too. This is duplication of content, that may be avoided with a better design.

Is there a repository for the boilerplatejs.org website? If so the community might be able to help with some basic copy editing.

Don't you feel the need for Context.unsubscribe() method?
E.g. I want my component to listen for event only if it is active. So i call Context.listen() in component's .activate() function (imagine I don't use viewmodels). Currently there is no way to unsubscribe when the component is deactivated, meaning the event handler will be called anyway. But i don't want to handle this event when the component is hidden because e.g. it changes look&feel of component based on event data - it's a waste of resources.

Hello,
In a component I create a modal window responding to an event:

var Component = function(moduleContext) {

    var vm = null;

    this.initialize = function (parent) {

        vm = new ViewModel(moduleContext);

        moduleContext.listen("loginClicked", function () {
            var newWindow;

            newWindow = window.open("", "login", "width=400,height=400);
            newWindow.document.write(template);

               // THIS DOESN'T WORK---------------------------------------------------------------
            ko.applyBindings(vm, newWindow.document.getElementById('body'));
               // -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        });
    };
}
    return Component;

});

The template (view.html) is the following:

Everything seems to work, but the created window is not binded to the viewmodel.

Thanks for your help,
Marcos

How can I include jQuery UI with BoilerPlateJS so that I can use jquery components?
thanks

Because of boilerplate using its own router class seems to be it not support remove hash tags with the browsers which support html5 push state in the following way

Backbone.history.start({hashChange:false, pushState:true})

Hi,

The two test files below: boilerplatejs / tests / other are wrongly named.
js-encapsulation.js contains the protoype tests and 'js-prototypes.js' contains the encapsulation tests.

Grtz,

Maarten Docter

apperently director.js approach is more compatible with boilerplatejs architecture.. it may help to reduce the amount of code in core classes

Add CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Seems like its not possible to stop module, and context instance has no knowledge of what modules are running.

Remove the 'src/core/helpers/storage.js' and related functionality since it is not architecturally significant.

As with most projects I don't like modifying core files (although this project does present a unique case to do it). My proposal is as follows.

Split core directory into two structures

core/_boiler_.js
core/helpers/_helpers_.js

extend/_boiler_.js
extend/helpers/_helpers_.js

The Helpers extended module would look like this :

define(function(require) {

    var Helpers = require('core/helpers/_helpers_');

    return _.extend(Helpers, {

    });
});

The same would go for _boiler_. I would have these two modules configured in main.js in the require config to always load from extend\*. All new modules can now be created in extend allowing overrides of core files, helper files and new core extensions to be added without touching core itself.

Implement a Backbone style 'extend' static on core classes

So I stole the Backbone extend function and placed it into boilerplate. I have then modified all core classes to use the extend method as a static extend.

This allows

define(function(require) {

    var Boiler = require('boiler');

    return Boiler.ViewTemplate.extend({

        someMethod : function() {}

    });
});

I 'd like to know your thoughts, this structure works very well for me and I'm sure it'd work well for most that have used Boilerplate.js to bootstrap their projects.

see yepnope.js and Modenizer.js for ideas