Reputation: 1392
I have been using Traceur to develop some projects in ES6. In my HTML page, I include local Traceur sources:
<script src="traceur.js"></script>
<script src="bootstrap.js"></script>
and if I have a module in the HTML afterwards like:
<script type="module" src="foo.js"></script>
Then Traceur loads in that module, compiles it and everything works great.
I now want to programmatically add an ES6 module to the page from within another ES6 module (reasons are somewhat complicated). Here was my first attempt:
var module = document.createElement('script');
module.setAttribute('type', 'module');
module.textContent = `
console.log('Inside the module now!');
`;
document.body.appendChild(module);
Unfortunately this doesn't work as Traceur does not monitor the page for every script tag added, I guess.
How can I get Traceur to compile and execute the script? I guess I need to invoke something on either 'traceur' or '$traceurRuntime' but I haven't found a good online source of documentation for that.
Upvotes: 0
Views: 577
Reputation: 141
Dynamic module loading is a (not-yet-standardized) feature of System
:
System.import('./repl-module.js').catch(function(ex) {
console.error('Internal Error ', ex.stack || ex);
});
To make this work you need to npm test
then include BrowserSystem
<script src="../bin/BrowserSystem.js"></script>
You might also like to look into https://github.com/systemjs/systemjs as it has great support for browser loading.
BTW the System
object may eventually be standardize (perhaps under a different name) in the WHATWG: http://whatwg.github.io/loader/#system-loader-instance
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 9776
You can load other modules using ES6 import
statements or TraceurLoader
API for dynamic dependencies.
Example from Traceur Documentation
function getLoader() {
var LoaderHooks = traceur.runtime.LoaderHooks;
var loaderHooks = new LoaderHooks(new traceur.util.ErrorReporter(), './');
return new traceur.runtime.TraceurLoader(loaderHooks);
}
getLoader().import('../src/traceur.js',
function(mod) {
console.log('DONE');
},
function(error) {
console.error(error);
}
);
Also, System.js loader seems to be supported as well
window.System = new traceur.runtime.BrowserTraceurLoader();
System.import('./Greeter.js');
Upvotes: 1