Dojo build and knockout failing with multipleDefine error once built

Question

I am using 3.16 of the ArcGIS API, downloaded locally via the bower / grunt instructions located GitHub - Esri/jsapi-resources: A collection of useful resources for developers using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript. . I have built my application in development using Knockout JS and it works like a charm. I load the Knockout library in the require section of my main javascript file: require(["esri/map", "app/knockout-latest"], function (Map, ko) {.....‍‍‍‍ My index.html is has the dojoConfig specified as such: script type="text/javascript"> var dojoConfig = { baseUrl: '.', deps: ["app/knockout-latest",'app/main', 'app/date'], packages: [ 'app', 'dijit', 'dojo', 'dojox', 'dstore', 'dgrid', 'xstyle', 'put-selector', 'esri', 'js', 'dojo-bootstrap', 'lib' ], parseOnLoad: true }; </script>  <script src="dojo/dojo.js"></script>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ So my app works perfectly in development, but once I use grunt to build the application, it breaks. The build completes successfully (I use the default build.profile.js from the GitHub repo), but I get a multipleDefine error in dojo.js. I've tried everything. If I don't include it as a dependency in my dojoConfig, I get I.observableArray is not a function in dojo.js, and then a multiple define error. I don't know how to fix this, other than to remove it from the build process and AMD load process all together, load it with a separate script tag and don't use it in the require block in my main js file. Has anyone run into this issue before with the dojo build / loader and knockout? Thanks!

ReneRubalcava · Answer

I assume app/main has this in it require(["esri/map", "app/knockout-latest"], function (Map, ko) {..... If that's the case, try not adding it to the deps of the profile, since it's not really a dependency because the main file loads it. deps is used to load files immediately after Dojo loads, it would typically only be a single file, like an app/main, but include files that may add globals as well.