I would like to be able to embed the content that gets created via this snippet anywhere I like, using one line of code - same way that you get any kind of snippet somewhere, so that it renders an iframe
or similar in return. I am not sure where to start with that, and if this what I already have is usable/ready to "convert" to an embeddable snippet. I went through a few tutorials but it was quite confusing since it was using some backend stuff I don't really understand...
Obviously, it should be hosted somewhere, but the part where I need to "call" the snippet is not really clear to me. Now, it just appears everywhere on my website since it's just a normal JS file which gets included, same as all other files.
It would be great if I could just pack it somehow and call it like this let's say:
<script src="link-to-my-snippet.js"></script>
If someone could direct me a bit that would be great.
const data = [
{
name: "John Doe",
age: 40
},
{
name: "Jane Doe",
age: 50
}
];
window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
function Item(configurationObject) {
apiCall(data);
}
function apiCall(data) {
// Do some API call and get back the data
// With the Unique ID that wass passed in via the
// configuration Object
// "data" is faked just for the demonstration
createHTML(data);
}
function createHTML(data) {
const mainDiv = document.createElement("div");
document.body.appendChild(mainDiv);
let html = '';
data.forEach((user) => {
html += `
<div class="test">
<p>${user.name}</p>
<p>${user.age}</p>
</div>
`;
});
mainDiv.innerHTML = html;
createStylesheet();
}
function createStylesheet() {
const style = document.createElement("style");
style.innerHTML = `
.test {
background-color: lightgreen;
color: white;
}
`;
document.head.appendChild(style);
}
let configurationObject = {
uniqueID: 1234
}
let initialize = new Item(configurationObject);
});
There are two ways:
Using modern javascript - ES6, Webpack, SCSS, and then bundle all in a single file using NPM Follow: https://blog.jenyay.com/building-javascript-widget/
Pure JavaScript - Custom Created.
You can create a self-executable anonymous function like this and write your complete widget code - including your HTML, CSS, etc inside this. It will be executed once your page is loaded with this script.
(function() {
// The following code will be enclosed within an anonymous function
var foo = "Hello World!";
document.write("<p>Inside our anonymous function foo means '" + foo + '".</p>');
})(); // We call our anonymous function immediately
For the second type solution you can also follow following article: https://gomakethings.com/the-anatomy-of-a-vanilla-javascript-plugin/