I've been experimenting with gatsby.js for a while and everything is going well except for this issue, i cannot include jQuery scripts unto the app so that it loads after the gatsby app has been rendered, i've the included script tags unto the html.js
file and loaded it but it seems that the code is executed before react renders the content unto the screen i've tried using simple-load-script
as well to include it on the componentDidMount
method on the html.js
app. But with no luck, here is the source code to my html.js
file:
html.js
import React from "react"
import PropTypes from "prop-types"
export default class HTML extends React.Component {
componentDidMount() {
console.log('hello world');
}
render() {
return (
<html {...this.props.htmlAttributes}>
<head>
<meta charSet="utf-8" />
<meta httpEquiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge" />
<meta
name="viewport"
content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no"
/>
{this.props.headComponents}
</head>
<body>
{this.props.preBodyComponents}
<div
key={`body`}
id="___gatsby"
dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: this.props.body }}
/>
{this.props.postBodyComponents}
</body>
</html>
)
}
}
HTML.propTypes = {
htmlAttributes: PropTypes.object,
headComponents: PropTypes.array,
bodyAttributes: PropTypes.object,
preBodyComponents: PropTypes.array,
body: PropTypes.string,
postBodyComponents: PropTypes.array,
}
As you can see i replaced the componentDidMount()
method to write out to the console and it didn't there's something preventing this method from executing.
If anyone has experience with this please do share, thanks.
If you want to add jQuery as an external (load from CDN) to gastby, it's a bit tricky. You'd need to:
html.js
external
to webpack config ingatsby-node.js
Add jQuery to
html.js
You've probably already done this:
cp .cache/default-html.js src/html.js
, and addBut there's a caveat: it's crossOrigin, not crossorigin. At this point, if you use
$
even incomponentDidMount
, it'd still throw error, as webpack doesn't know about jquery.Add
external
to webpack config ingatsby-node.js
We need to inform webpack about jQuery.
Usage
Now, in
componentDidMount
you can doWhy case sensitive
When we set
external: { X: Y }
We're essentially telling webpack that 'wherever I doimport X
', look for theY
in the global scope. In our case, webpack'll look forjQuery
inwindow
. jQuery attachs itself to window with 2 names:jQuery
and$
. This is why the capitalized Q is important.Also, to illustrate, you can also do:
external: { foo: jQuery }
and use it likeimport $ from foo
. It should still work.Hope that helps!