External resources do not appear to honour priority order

[ProNotion]

In an Umbraco site I have a master view that adds common scripts like so:

Html.RequiresJs("~/scripts/common.js", 1);

In a child view I then might register additional scripts like so:

Html.RequiresJs("https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=xxx", 0)
	.RequiresJs("~/scripts/plugins/infobox.js", 8)
	.RequiresJs("/scripts/map.js", 9);

The problem I have is that common.js has references to the Google Maps APi which fail because the API is not loaded in until after the script itself because the final rendering order is as follows:

<script src="/DependencyHandler.axd?s=L3NjcmlwdHMvYWxsLm1pbi5qczs&amp;t=Javascript&amp;cdv=2005391810"></script>
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=xxx"></script>

WHen in fact I would expect, and need, it to be the other way around:

<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=???"></script>
<script src="/DependencyHandler.axd?s=L3NjcmlwdHMvYWxsLm1pbi5qczs&amp;t=Javascript&amp;cdv=2005391810"></script>

Is this by design?

[Shazwazza]

No it should do as you expect, CDF will stagger any external dependencies so will always render them separately (unless you've configured it to fetch external resources locally ... not recommended).

Can you replicate with a simple setup? seems odd since this is pretty basic functionality of cdf.

[ProNotion]

Thanks for the quick response Shannon, I will see if I can replicate it in a clean build. FWIW this is a Umbraco v7.7.0 site currently.

[Shazwazza]

Just need to find out if this is the order that the views are rendering and where you are rendering your scripts out, etc... or if it's just a strange bug that's never been discovered somehow :)

My advise though is to avoid registering dependencies inside partials, etc... I realize that was one of the original ideas behind this lib but it's not exactly best practices since depending on how you are rendering views there's various ways to make this fail (i.e. caching views, child actions, other odd ordering). I'd advise creating named bundles if you can which cdf supports too.

[ProNotion]

Aha, named bundles you say. I've not come across those so will look into that.

[Shazwazza]

Sorry not a ton of docs but you can find info here https://github.com/Shazwazza/ClientDependency/wiki#pre-defined-bundles

[Shazwazza]

Then you need to require your bundle like RequiresJsBundle and then render as per normal, ideally i'd have this done #1 ... but not a lot of time and probably wont invest more effort apart from bug fixing to CDF since Smidge supercedes it (but haven't got that working nicely with .NET Framework just yet)