youtube-video-element
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<youtube-video>
A custom element
for the YouTube player with an API that matches the
<video> API.
HTMLMediaElement API<script type="module" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/youtube-video-element@1"></script>
<youtube-video controls src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rubNgGj3pYo"></youtube-video>
<youtube-video> is packaged as a javascript module (es6) only, which is supported by all evergreen browsers and Node v12+.
<script>Note the type="module", that's important.
Modules are always loaded asynchronously by the browser, so it's ok to load them in the head :thumbsup:, and best for registering web components quickly.
<head>
<script type="module" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/youtube-video-element@1"></script>
</head>
npmnpm install youtube-video-element --save
Or yarn
yarn add youtube-video-element
Include in your app javascript (e.g. src/App.js)
import 'youtube-video-element';
This will register the custom elements with the browser so they can be used as HTML.
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Custom element (web component) for the YouTube player.
The npm package youtube-video-element receives a total of 64,411 weekly downloads. As such, youtube-video-element popularity was classified as popular.
We found that youtube-video-element demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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