Using the custom OpenLayers library build
In places throughout this book, we've credited the full functionality that OpenLayers offers out of the box with its capacity to help build powerfully capable web-mapping applications. We've also been consciously aware of the fact that this well equipped capability comes with the price of a larger download size.
However, this recipe will show you how to construct a custom minified build of OpenLayers that will include only the code from the library that's fundamental for your specific application requirements.
To demonstrate this, we'll create a custom build, which is made suitable to run an earlier recipe from this book: Creating a simple full screen map in Chapter 1, Web Mapping Basics.
The source code for this recipe can be found in ch07/ch07-custom-openlayers-build.
Getting ready
The OpenLayers build tools has two dependencies that need to be installed on your machine: Node.js (https://nodejs.org) and Java 1.7 SDK (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork...
