Dynamically load a JavaScript file

Question

How can you reliably and dynamically load a JavaScript file? This will can be used to implement a module or component that when \'initialized\' the component will dynamical

Answer 1

I have tweaked some of the above post with working example. Here we can give css and js in same array also.

$(document).ready(function(){

if (Array.prototype.contains === undefined) {
Array.prototype.contains = function (obj) {
    var i = this.length;
    while (i--) { if (this[i] === obj) return true; }
    return false;
};
};

/* define object that will wrap our logic */
var jsScriptCssLoader = {

jsExpr : new RegExp( "js$", "i" ),
cssExpr : new RegExp( "css$", "i" ),
loadedFiles: [],

loadFile: function (cssJsFileArray) {
    var self = this;
    // remove duplicates with in array
    cssJsFileArray.filter((item,index)=>cssJsFileArray.indexOf(item)==index)
    var loadedFileArray = this.loadedFiles;
    $.each(cssJsFileArray, function( index, url ) {
            // if multiple arrays are loaded the check the uniqueness
            if (loadedFileArray.contains(url)) return;
            if( self.jsExpr.test( url ) ){
                $.get(url, function(data) {
                    self.addScript(data);
                });

            }else if( self.cssExpr.test( url ) ){
                $.get(url, function(data) {
                    self.addCss(data);
                });
            }

            self.loadedFiles.push(url);
    });

    // don't load twice accross different arrays

},
addScript: function (code) {
    var oNew = document.createElement("script");
    oNew.type = "text/javascript";
    oNew.textContent = code;
    document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(oNew);
},
addCss: function (code) {
    var oNew = document.createElement("style");
    oNew.textContent = code;
    document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(oNew);
}

};


//jsScriptCssLoader.loadFile(["css/1.css","css/2.css","css/3.css"]);
jsScriptCssLoader.loadFile(["js/common/1.js","js/2.js","js/common/file/fileReader.js"]);
});