How to read a properties file in javascript from project directory?

Question

I\'m building a Chrome Packaged App. I want to put the script configuration if a config file in a resource directory and on startup want to read that by Javascript.

Answer 1

You can use messageResource.js, a simple javascript library created by me for loading properties file.

1) Include messageResource.js in your index.html.

2) You can get key-value pairs of config.properties from main.js using the following code.

// initialize messageResource.js  
messageResource.init({
  // path to directory containing config.properties
  filePath : 'resource'
});

// load config.properties file
messageResource.load('config', function(){ 
  // load file callback 

  // get value corresponding  to a key from config.properties  
  var value = messageResource.get('key', 'config');
});