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scriptimporter
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A slim script importer inspired by the importScripts function in web workers.
A slim script importer inspired by the importScripts function in web workers.
This module can be installed from npm.
$ npm install scriptimporter
import importScripts from "scriptimporter";
var scripts = [
"/js/myscript.js",
"/js/foo.js",
"/js/bar.js"
];
// A custom callback function.
function callback() {
console.log("All scripts have been loaded!");
}
// The head DOM tag will be used internally to load the scripts,
// so make sure that the page is done loading the DOM content!
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function func() {
// Loads the given scripts independently.
importScripts(scripts, callback);
// Loads the given scripts in the specified order.
importScripts(scripts, callback, true);
// Clean up.
document.removeEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", func);
});
Maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code.
Copyright (c) 2015 Raoul van Rüschen
Licensed under the Zlib license.
FAQs
A slim script importer inspired by the importScripts function in web workers.
We found that scriptimporter demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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