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Loader can do this, but your source files are not in the proper format to load. They lack the required `YUI.add` wrapper call. If you add the YUI.add calls to your source files, then sure it can. But you will need to manually remove them before you build with builder.

Loader can, but your dev environment needs to be able to produce a valid module js file.

@kenjiru: If you don't want to have to rebuild and are simply testing modules you are developing, you can always use something like Dav described in this gist https://gist.github.com/1275713. Of course you can add custom css as a separate module with "type:'css'" in a module.

Is not exactly what I meant, but Shifter looks way better than Builder, because it drops the Java requirement.

It would still be nice not to require any build step at all during development. The build process looks more like packing than building, as everything you need to run the application is already in the source folder.

@Todd Smith: I'm already doing this now, thank you for the advice.

There is a difference between loading your raw source and loading a built module. Many module require more than one JS file in a certain order. Plus a module with a skin or a language pack needs a generated set of source files that are not the same as they are in the src directory.

Using shifter to build a module that is only one JS file is probably overboard, but if you have several JS files, skin, language files (and eventually pre-compiled templates) you are doing yourself a diservice by not building per change