get requirejs-config.js to load declared cdn's for jquery

Question

I have been trying to get the requirejs-config.js to load, but as of yet it will not.. I have followed http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/javascript-dev-guide/javascript/custom_js.html and put the file like,

/app/design/frontend/<vendor>/<theme>/requirejs-config.js

containing

(function() {
/**
 * WSU something
 */

var config = {
    "paths": {'jquery':'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js',
        'jquery/ui':'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.min.js',
        'spin':'https://repo.wsu.edu/spine/1/spine.min.js?2015-16-12',
        'datatables':'//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/datatables/1.9.4/jquery.dataTables.min.js'},
    map:{'*':{'jquery':'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js',
        'jquery/ui':'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.min.js',
        'spin':'https://repo.wsu.edu/spine/1/spine.min.js?2015-16-12',
        'datatables':'//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/datatables/1.9.4/jquery.dataTables.min.js'}}
};

require.config(config);
})();

NOTE that I started with

var config = {
    "paths": {'jquery':'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js',
        'jquery/ui':'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.min.js',
        'spin':'https://repo.wsu.edu/spine/1/spine.min.js?2015-16-12',
        'datatables':'//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/datatables/1.9.4/jquery.dataTables.min.js'},
    map:{'*':{'jquery':'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js',
        'jquery/ui':'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.min.js',
        'spin':'https://repo.wsu.edu/spine/1/spine.min.js?2015-16-12',
        'datatables':'//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/datatables/1.9.4/jquery.dataTables.min.js'}}
};

which is what the doc indicate but also doesn't work..

The issue is it never loads. Just in case I have also run php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy with not luck.

How do we get the new paths declared

Answer 1

After much trail this is what boiled out. The location of the requirejs-config.js is correct as the docs indicate,

/app/design/frontend/<vendor>/<theme>/requirejs-config.js

But the why this didn't work was that if you redid the jQuery to a CDN then everything else would fail as the mappings were based on that (as I understand it at this time). This is what I ended up needing to do to get everything to load an show up.

var config = {
    "paths":{
        'jquery':'https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min',
        '_jquery':'jquery/',
        'jquery/ui':'https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui',
        'jquery/jquery-migrate':'https://code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min',
        'spine':'https://repo.wsu.edu/spine/1/spine.min.js?2015-16-12',
        'datatables':'//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/datatables/1.9.4/jquery.dataTables.min'},
     map: {
        "*": {
            "jquery/jquery.mobile.custom": "/static/frontend/wsu/wsu_base/en_US/jquery/jquery.mobile.custom.js",
            'jquery/jquery.cookie':"/static/frontend/wsu/wsu_base/en_US/jquery/jquery.cookie.js",
            'jquery/jquery.validate':'/static/frontend/wsu/wsu_base/en_US/jquery.validate.js',
            'jquery/jquery.metadata':'/static/frontend/wsu/wsu_base/en_US/jquery/jquery.metadata.js',
            'jquery/jquery-ui-timepicker-addon':'/static/frontend/wsu/wsu_base/en_US/jquery/jquery-ui-timepicker-addon.js'
        }
    },
    "shim": {
        "spine" : ["jquery","jquery/ui"],
        "datatables" : ["jquery","jquery/ui"]
    },deps: [
        "spine",
        "datatables"
    ]
};

Answer 2

in official doc for add to theme you need add to /app/design/frontend/<vendor>/<theme>/web/js not as i see in your question /app/design/frontend/<vendor>/<theme>/requirejs-config.js remove rm -rf var/view_preprocessed/* Other think not forget to remove your theme stack in pub static folder:

rm -rf pub/static/<vendor>/<theme>

and run

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

for be sure ...