Error "Unable to get property 'normalize' of undefined or null reference" in require.js with text.js

Question

I'm making my first attempt at using the text.js plugin (v2.0.12) for require.js (v2.1.15). I've had require working well up to this point, however, when I attempt to resolve a text dependency, I get two errors. The first error is Unable to get property 'normalize' of undefined or null reference [require.js, Line: 955] then, after the allotted time, I'll get a timeout error for the html file I'm attempting to load. The focus of this cry for help is the former error.

One curious observation I've noticed is that if I resolve the text module without declaring a file, there is no error. However, when I add the file path e.g. text!path/file, the error is triggered.

Additionally, I noticed that the load timeout error references the text module with _unnormalized2 appended. Not sure if that's to be expected but I thought is odd. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Here's the block of code which errors:

//If current map is not normalized, wait for that
//normalized name to load instead of continuing.
if (this.map.unnormalized) {
    //Normalize the ID if the plugin allows it.
    if (plugin.normalize) { // error occurs here (line 955)
        name = plugin.normalize(name, function (name) {
            return normalize(name, parentName, true);
        }) || '';
    }

    // ...
}

Answer 1

Ok, it turns out to have been a self-sabotage! I was creating a shortcut definition for the text module for which I left out the factory method. So, instead of

define('text', ['Scripts/text'], function(text) { return text; });

I had:

define('text', ['Scripts/text']);

Nothing to do with text.js whatsoever.