An experimental tiny lib (3kb) to load any JS library from jsdelivr.com dynamically based on the lib name. Specific version also supported.
This library made using ES6 Custom Elements which is not supported in all browsers yet, it depends on jsdilvr CDN and using its APIs to search for any well-known library by name (nearest value) and inject it dynamically into your page.
One more time, this is an experimental library and was made just for testing purposes, it uses the nasty synchronous HTTP calls (deprecated) to simulate the same blocking behavior done by the script tag. More info about script tag and loading behavior is from here
Add the small tiny little script tag at the page header
<script src="scripty.js"></script>Create scripty tag with the needed library name using packages property
<script-y packages="jquery"></script-y>If the library name got 2 words (ex: angular icons or angular translate) just place the name with space and it will be replaced automatically by * as search APIs uses minimatch. It will take the first item as closest value when search performed
<script-y packages="jquery*ui"></script-y>Loading specific version is also possible using @ after the library name
<script-y packages="jquery@3.1.0"></script-y>Scripts are loaded in order, so if there is a dependency between the different libs, just put them in order
<script-y packages="angularjs,angular translate"></script-y>You can also load some local JS files if needed by using locals property (always will be loaded after packages complete)
<script-y packages="jquery" locals="myscript.js"></script-y>Add a callback function if needed, although the scripts are running in a blocking mechanism which means any script will come after scripty will be executed as in the same normal order.
<script-y packages="jquery" locals="external.js" oncomplete="amCallbackFunc()" ></script-y>Why the synchronous calls are used!! Because DOMContentLoaded awaits only for HTML and script tags, but won’t wait for a script created by document.createElement (dynamic script).
The loading is quite it slow as the component flow as following :
- Render the component and read all the content passed from the html and setting its properties.
- Hit jsdilvr APIs to search for the needed library and retrieve all the info will be used to get the library (major).
- Create script tag and add to the DOM after evaluating the script loaded.
- Call the callback method when the whole DOM is ready by using
DOMContentLoaded.
Clone the project, run the almighty npm install then gulp watch
And to find which version was loaded in case you mentioned only the library name, open console and it will mention which version was downloaded jquery@3.1.1
- Alternative to blocking mechanism (Async) with proper callback (on progress)
- Cache the downloaded libraries first time and load it locally in the coming requests
- Any suggestions are welcome
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2016 Amgad Fahmi
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