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How to keep track of dynamically added nodes using MutationObserver?

Context:
The code is from the "content-script" of a chrome extension.
Given a target node, i would like to get every childNode(a div) and add a button on it.
I tried the simplest solution:
const target = document.querySelector(targetSelector);
const childNodes = target.childNodes;
childNodes.forEach(node => { //some function that add a button on this node});
Obviously, it works untill i scroll down the page, when new nodes are added on the DOM, and I can't keep track of them anymore.
Thus i decided to try with MutationObserver:
const target = document.querySelector(targetSelector);
const config = { childList: true, subtree: true };
const callback = (mutationList, observer) => {
for (const mutation of mutationList) {
console.log(mutation); //it doesn't return the node, but some kind of mutation object, so i can't get the refernce and work whit it.
}
};
const observer = new MutationObserver(callback);
observer.observe(target,config);
There's a solution? Can i finally keep track of new added nodes and work with them?
EDIT: As #Jridyard suggested, i tried both "target" property and "mutation.addedNodes" property.
This partially fixed the problem, in the sense that I finally got the references to the nodes initially, but not the dynamically loaded ones in the DOM, getting this error when I try to access the innerText property.
index2.js:52 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'innerText')
at MutationObserver.callback
Example:
const callback = (mutationList, observer) => {
for(const mutation of mutationList) {
//works with the initially loaded nodes,not tracking the others dinamically loaded after page scroll.
/*if(mutation.target.classList[0] === "Comment") {
console.log(mutation.target.innerText);
} */
//works with the initially loaded nodes, the gives me the above error with the others nodes dinamically loaded after page scroll.
if(mutation.addedNodes[0] !== null) {
console.log(mutation.addedNodes[0].innerText);
}
}
};

I finally found a solution (not written by me, courtesy of a reddit user) and figured out that the initial problem stemmed from Reddit.
Because I tried to do the same on youtube and it worked fine.
In practice Reddit updates parts of a comment at different times, so simply monitoring the added nodes(as I did above) was not enough, but the comments had to be parsed after each mutation in the DOM.
Probably computationally very inefficient, but currently working.
The code below shows the solution tailored for reddit:
function processComment(comment)
{
const avatar_link = comment.querySelector("[data-testid=comment_author_icon]");
const user_link = avatar_link?.getAttribute("href");
const user_picture_link = avatar_link?.querySelector("img")?.getAttribute("src");
const user_name = comment.querySelector("[data-testid=comment_author_link]")?.textContent;
const body = comment.querySelector("[data-testid=comment]")?.textContent;
return {
user_link,
user_picture_link,
user_name,
body,
div: comment,
};
}
function getComments(parent)
{
return [...(parent ?? document).querySelectorAll(".Comment")].map(processComment);
}
function observeComments(callback, parent)
{
parent ??= document;
const mo = new MutationObserver(() => getComments(parent).map(callback));
mo.observe(parent, {attributes: true, childList: true, subtree: true});
return mo;
}
observeComments((m)=>console.log(m.body));

Access variable from MutationObserver callback globally

I have a div that is getting its inner text changed by another element. In my js file I have the following, which on DOM ready state, starting monitoring the target for mutations. If I put, for example, console.log() of any of the vars inside changeToVar function, it behaves as expected and accesses the variables. What I want though is to be able to access the MON_DATA and CONT_DATA outside of the changeToVar function.
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function (event) {
var target = document.getElementById("recidRecord");
var observer = new MutationObserver(function (mutations) {
changeToVar(target.innerText);
});
observer.observe(target, {
attributes: true,
childList: true,
characterData: true,
});
});
function changeToVar(target) {
window.data = target;
var CONST_DATA = CONST_DETAILS[window.data];
window.MON_DATA = CONST_DATA.monitored_props;
window.CONT_DATA = CONST_DATA.contingencies;
}

Javascript: MutationObserver Doesn't show me the changed Nodes

The MutationObserver is a simple API that allows me to monitor DOM changes. I'm using it in a chrome-extension I want to know when certain elements on a webpage are added. and using the childList option which is supposed to tell me when the specified target adds new nodes.
From Mozilla Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObserverInit/childList
By setting childList to true, your callback will be invoked any time nodes are added to or removed from the DOM node or nodes being watched.
but on the callback the change.addedNodes and change.removedNodes is false. even though printing the targets' childNodes.length shows that the number of children is actuall changing
let content_box = document.querySelector('div#content-box'); // target to monitor
// create observer with callback
let observer = new MutationObserver( (mutations, observer) => {
mutations.forEach( change => {
console.log(`Added: ${change.addedNodes==true}`) // no added nodes (there should be)
console.log(`Removed ${change.removedNodes==true}`) // no removed nodes (which is fine)
console.log(change.target) // I've confirmed the target is the correct one
console.log(change.target.childNodes.length) // after multiple callbacks the length of children is actually increasing
})
})
observer.observe(content_box, {
childList: true, // monitoring for childList changes
attributes: false,
subtree: false,
})

You wanna check whether the property addedNodes is in the object of change. so console.log("addedNodes" in change) to get a true result.
let content_box = document.querySelector('div#content-box'); // target to monitor
// create observer with callback
let observer = new MutationObserver( (mutations, observer) => {
mutations.forEach( change => {
console.log(`Added: ${"addedNodes" in change}`) // no added nodes (there should be)
console.log(`Removed ${"removedNodes" in change}`) // no removed nodes (which is fine)
console.log(change.target) // I've confirmed the target is the correct one
console.log(change.target.childNodes.length) // after multiple callbacks the length of children is actually increasing
})
})
observer.observe(content_box, {
childList: true, // monitoring for childList changes
attributes: false,
subtree: false,
})

Detect change in value of a DOM custom data attribute in real-time and run a function as the change occurs using js

I am trying to run a simple function each time there is a change in the value of a custom data attribute of a DOM element.
Here is an example below
<div id="myDiv" data-type="type-1">
<!-- Some Content -->
</div>
In the HTML code above, i have a div with a custom data attribute of data-type with a value which i change using javascript. I would like to fire up a another function when ever the value of the attribute is changed depending on the value it holds.
For instance Using an if-statement(which doesn't work! 😒)
var myDiv = document.getElementById("myDiv");
var myDivAttr = myDiv.getAttribute("data-type");
if(myDivAttr == "type-1"){
typeOneFunction();
}
else if(myDivAttr == "type-2"){
typeTwoFunction();
}
// and so on...
I hope my question is clear enough😇😊

You can achieve this using Mutation Observers
// Select the node that will be observed for mutations
const targetNode = document.getElementById('myDiv');
// Options for the observer (which mutations to observe)
const config = { attributes: true };
// Callback function to execute when mutations are observed
const callback = function(mutationsList, observer) {
// Use traditional 'for loops' for IE 11
for(let mutation of mutationsList) {
if (mutation.type === 'attributes') {
if(myDivAttr == "type-1"){
typeOneFunction();
}
else if(myDivAttr == "type-2"){
typeTwoFunction();
}
}
}
};
// Create an observer instance linked to the callback function
const observer = new MutationObserver(callback);
// Start observing the target node for configured mutations
observer.observe(targetNode, config);
// Later, you can stop observing
observer.disconnect();
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObserver
I didn't test that code*

MutationObserver detecting element appereance and changing of element's value

I intend to use MutationObserver on observing the appearance and changing of element's value, but to be honest I'm not sure how this should be implemented.
The target of MO would be div.player-bar and what I'm trying to accomplish is to detect when el-badge__content appears in page and when el-badge__content element value is changed (for example instead 1 would change to 2).
Please note that el-badge__content appears at the same time with the creation of div.new-bar and many times div.new-bar would not be present in the page, that's why I need to listen to div.player-bar.
Is this possible? So far I was thinking of something like this:
var target = document.getElementsByClassName('player-bar')[0];
var config = { attributes: true, childList: true, subtree: true };
const observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {
mutations.forEach(function(mutation) {
mutation.forEach(function(addedNode) {
var e = addedNode.document.getElementsByClassName('el-badge__content')[0];
if (e) {
console.log("Element appearance/changed")
};
});
});
});
observer.observe(target, config);
Thank you in advance.

mutation is a MutationRecord object that contains the array-like addedNodes NodeList collection that you missed in your code, but it's not an array so it doesn't have forEach. You can use ES6 for-of enumeration in modern browsers or a plain for loop or invoke forEach.call.
A much easier solution for this particular case is to use the dynamically updated live collection returned by getElementsByClassName since it's superfast, usually much faster than enumeration of all the mutation records and all their added nodes within.
const target = document.querySelector('.player-bar');
// this is a live collection - when the node is added the [0] element will be defined
const badges = target.getElementsByClassName('el-badge__content');
let prevBadge, prevBadgeText;
const mo = new MutationObserver(() => {
const badge = badges[0];
if (badge && (
// the element was added/replaced entirely
badge !== prevBadge ||
// or just its internal text node
badge.textContent !== prevBadgeText
)) {
prevBadge = badge;
prevBadgeText = badge.textContent;
doSomething();
}
});
mo.observe(target, {subtree: true, childList: true});
function doSomething() {
const badge = badges[0];
console.log(badge, badge.textContent);
}
As you can see the second observer is added on the badge element itself. When the badge element is removed, the observer will be automatically removed by the garbage collector.