I am including my js file into my main html file like so
<script type="text/babel" src="js/scripts.js"></script>
Then I call one of my functions like so
<div class="allButton" id="completeAll" onclick="showAll('completeColumn');">Show All (...)</div>
the function looks like this
function showAll(column) {
$('div[id^='+column+']').removeClass('hide');
};
When I click the button(div) I get this error
Uncaught ReferenceError: showAll is not defined
I am using the text/babel as my script type because the file contains React JS stuff.
I have no idea why I simply cannot call my function. I am extremely new to ReactJS and Babel. (note: I am not using npm/gulp due to limitations)
Any help and/or advice would be appreciated
If you just define your function as follows you will be able to call it within the HTML.
window.showAll = function showAll(column) {
// your code here...
};
You have not exported your showAll function. When you transpile a JS/JSX file with Babel and bundle it to a scripts.js file (using Browserify or similar utilities), you must make sure to export your module (which tells your bundler to package it into your bundled file).
Your code should look like this:
var showAll = function(column) {
$('div[id^='+column+']').removeClass('hide');
};
module.exports = showAll;
This tells your bundler that your showAll method needs to be exported and available to other referenced namespaces.
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I'm trying to import a file into TypeScript that's basically just a js file that you'd put into a tag. I've tried a few different things.
// global.d.ts
declare module 'myfile.js'
Inside of the react file:
// component.tsx
import { foo } from '../lib/myFile.js' // This is saying it is not a module
Inside of the js file, it looks like this a few times so not sure how I need to reference the file:
(function( something ) {
something.Foo = function (){}
}(window.something = window.something || {}));
Any thoughts on how I could use this file? Do I need to go through and declare typings for everything in it?
EDIT: I've added allowJS to my tsconfig but it still doesn't work.
You can only import what is exported from the file.
If your file contains only immediately invoked functions, or top level code, you only need to import the file itself like this:
import '../lib/myFile.js'
This is a little weird, however. I would suggest wrapping everything with a function and exporting then importing that function instead.
Nooby question:
I've got file main.js with module let myModule = {}, defined there inside $(document).ready(function(). And I have another file summary.js where I would like to use it. I declare them all in the head of html file:
<script src="js/main.js"></script>
<script src="js/summary.js"></script>
I would like to use myModule module in the summary.js file and extend it. So I would like to be able to define: myModule.summary = {}. For now I receive the error myModule is undefined even though all js files are uploaded correctly (I can see them in debugger in dev console of the browser). I expect I have to export the mdrx module somehow but export default mdrx at the end of main.js does not do the job. How to do it correctly? I read the documentation but it seems like structural problem as I couldn't figure that out. Can that be that the myModule is not loaded yet before loding summary.js? If so how to prevent that?
You can use the type attribute to achieve this:
<script src="js/main.js" type="module"></script>
Then you can import the module in other JavaScript files:
import yourModule from './main.js'
The problem was that the whole myModule was defined inside function() (called within document.ready event). Moving it outside that solved the problem.
I have created a number of String.prototype functions which for maintainability I'd like to have in its own file. That is, I'd like to include the file in a javascript project and thus have all the String functions defined.
I could create a module that exports each function, but then I'd have to assign each function as its own String prototype, yes? Something like
var myStringFunctions = require("myStringFunctions");
String.prototype.func1 = myStringFunctions.func1;
Is there a way to include such a file so that the prototypes are defined as part of the inclusion?
Try it, you will see your code and using require("./myStringFunctions"); works just fine.
./myStringFunctions.js
String.prototype.func1 = function() {
return this.toUpperCase(this);
};
./index.js
require("./myStringFunctions");
console.log("foo".func1()); // FOO
If your JS is going to run in the browser, you can use JS modules with the import and export syntax if you use a module bundling build tool like Webpack: https://webpack.js.org/ .
If your JS is running in a Node.js environment, modules are supported: https://www.w3schools.com/nodejs/nodejs_modules.asp
I have a fresh Laravel 5.8 installation and I would like to include the js modules from MDBootstrap.
In my bootstrap.js file I have:
require('./mdb/modules');
The ./mdb/modules.js file has:
exports.modules = [
'./js/_intro-mdb-pro.js',
'./js/scrolling-navbar.js',
'./js/vendor/jquery.easing.js',
'./js/vendor/velocity.js',
'./js/vendor/chart.js',
'./js/vendor/wow.js',
... 30 more
];
The compilation works ok, but of course, it doesn't take any effect from these modules include.
I don't know how to include all of them at once as they are not looking like a regular module so I can import like 'import * from 'my-module'
I also tried the ES6 way:
import * as MDBootstrap from './mdb/modules';
but I got the same result: successful compilation without including them into the compiled js file.
The content of these 'modules' doesn't seem to look like a normal module where we export default {} or some other functions or variables. It looks like:
//mdb/js/scrolling-navbar.js
"use strict";
(function ($) {
var SCROLLING_NAVBAR_OFFSET_TOP = 50;
$(window).on('scroll', function () {
var $navbar = $('.navbar');
if ($navbar.length) {
if ($navbar.offset().top > SCROLLING_NAVBAR_OFFSET_TOP) {
$('.scrolling-navbar').addClass('top-nav-collapse');
} else {
$('.scrolling-navbar').removeClass('top-nav-collapse');
}
}
});
})(jQuery);
Even 'exports.modules = [..]' is not familiar to me. I know about 'module.export = ...' but this 'exports' looks like it's a Node.js object.
I know there's also another method to include the dist version of the plugin. I also tried it, but I got some errors: 'Identifier '_classCallCheck' has already been declared'. I looked deeper and I found that actually many of those files are declaring the '_classCallCheck' function and of course that it a redeclare error. Maybe I can refer to this particular error directly to them (MDBootstrap).
So here I am, trying to include and use these modules/files in my Laravel project without success. Any help is appreciated.
Trying to figure out if there is a problem due to the import/export method, or if my architecture just bad....
Previously, I had multiple files of javascript. Just functions, no classes. In one "center/main" JS file, there are global variables. These variables are accessed and used/updated by functions in that same file, as well as other files. Each JS file had to have its own tag within the index.html
The move was then to switch to webpack as a module builder which would remove the need for all those script tags. Instead I just have to import/export the functions.
The problem is that now after using that method, the global variables are undefined to the imported functions Below is the setup dumbed down, but I don't see why it would be a problem. Maybe I'm missing something.
main JS file
import * as SettingsFile from './settings';
var myVariableUsed;
$(document).ready(function() {
myVariableUsed = "test";
SettingsFile.startSettings();
});
secondary JS file (settings.js)
export function startSettings(json) {
console.log(myVariableUsed);
}
Hy, i think you can understant what is happening with this article:
https://medium.com/webpack/brief-introduction-to-scope-hoisting-in-webpack-8435084c171f
To be short, webpack creates a new scope for required files, because of 'use strict' declaration on generated code output.
To pass parâmeters to required modules you need to do do something like this:
// somefile
require("lib.js")(param1, param2)
// lib.js
module.exports = function(param1, param2) { }