is concatenating the only way to 'import' one JS lib from another?
- by Nikita
Disclaimer: JS novice
I have a JS widget that depends on JQuery. The widget's going to be embedded in a 3rd party site but I figure out how to avoid declaring dependency on jquery on the widget-hosting page:
3rd party's page:
<head>
<script
type="text/javascript"
src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.js"></script>
<script
type="text/javascript"
src="http://mydomain/mywidget.js"></script>
</head>
mywidget.js
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
//do stuff
});
I'd rather not include jquery.js in the 3d party page but express the dependency inside mywidget.js (so i can change this dependency or add/remove others w/o having to update the widget-hosting page)
I tried adding:
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.js';
script.type = 'text/javascript';
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);
to the top of mywidget.js but that didn't work - jquery.js did load on page load but "jQuery" was not recognized.
What did work was concatenating jquery.js and mywidget.js into a single .js file. But that seems kind of lame - is there no equivalent to?
import com.jquery.*;
thanks!
