Async load failure

[ghost]

In the case that the url fails to load from an async! call, it appears that it blocks the entire page from loading. Shouldn't the onLoad function be called if the module times out?

[millermedeiros]

Right now we don't have a timeout for dependencies loaded with the async plugin. I think it should call the error callback.

[ghost]

Thanks, where do I place the error callback and what should it do? My problem is that my app.js is not executing as a result of the failure.

[millermedeiros]

error callbacks only works with async require: http://requirejs.org/docs/api.html#errbacks - so the "best thing" is not to list it as a "hard dependency" (if it might fail).

[ghost]

Ah, that's the problem then. I want to have the capability of a module depending on a script via async!, but not block the application from loading if that async fails.