Request Agent

JQuery is great, but its greatness comes at a cost. Sometimes you wish you could extract just a few of its modules and though it's possible it can still end up being quite heavy.

Request Agent is a fork of jQuery v2.1.0 that leaves jQuery core with only two of its most popular modules (Ajax & Deferreds) and strips out the rest. The result is an AJAX library with a lighter footprint (14 KB -minified) and an awesome (and well-known) API that can be used in browser and non-browser environments.

How to build this project

Clone a copy of the repo by running:

git clone https://github.com/quiaro/request-agent.git

Enter the project's directory and run the build script:

cd request-agent && npm run build

The built version of the project will be put in the dist/ subdirectory, along with the minified copy and associated map file.

Also, by running the grunt command, in the request-agent directory, you are able to build the project (just like with npm run build command):

grunt

To look at the other tasks available inherited from the jQuery project, try the -help option for grunt:

grunt -help

Building to a different directory

To copy the built project files from /dist to another directory:

grunt && grunt dist:/path/to/special/location/

With this example, the output files would be:

/path/to/special/location/request-agent.js
/path/to/special/location/request-agent.min.js

To add a permanent copy destination, create a file in dist/ called ".destination.json". Inside the file, paste and customize the following:

{
  "/Absolute/path/to/other/destination": true
}

Additionally, both methods can be combined.