How to load external scripts dynamically in Angula

Question

I have this module which componentize the external library together with additional logic without adding the <script> tag directly into the index.html:

import 'http://external.com/path/file.js'
//import '../js/file.js'

@Component({
    selector: 'my-app',
    template: `
        <script src="http://iknow.com/this/does/not/work/either/file.js"></script>
        <div>Template</div>`
})
export class MyAppComponent {...}

I notice the import by ES6 spec is static and resolved during TypeScript transpiling rather than at runtime.

Anyway to make it configurable so the file.js will be loading either from CDN or local folder? How to tell Angular 2 to load a script dynamically?

Answer 1

I have done this code snippet with the new renderer api

 constructor(private renderer: Renderer2){}

 addJsToElement(src: string): HTMLScriptElement {
    const script = document.createElement('script');
    script.type = 'text/javascript';
    script.src = src;
    this.renderer.appendChild(document.body, script);
    return script;
  }

And then call it like this

this.addJsToElement('https://widgets.skyscanner.net/widget-server/js/loader.js').onload = () => {
        console.log('SkyScanner Tag loaded');
} 

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Answer 2

I have modified @rahul kumars answer, so that it uses Observables instead:

import { Injectable } from "@angular/core";
import { Observable } from "rxjs/Observable";
import { Observer } from "rxjs/Observer";

@Injectable()
export class ScriptLoaderService {
    private scripts: {ScriptModel}[] = [];

    public load(script: ScriptModel): Observable<ScriptModel> {
        return new Observable<ScriptModel>((observer: Observer<ScriptModel>) => {
            var existingScript = this.scripts.find(s => s.name == script.name);

            // Complete if already loaded
            if (existingScript && existingScript.loaded) {
                observer.next(existingScript);
                observer.complete();
            }
            else {
                // Add the script
                this.scripts = [...this.scripts, script];

                // Load the script
                let scriptElement = document.createElement("script");
                scriptElement.type = "text/javascript";
                scriptElement.src = script.src;

                scriptElement.onload = () => {
                    script.loaded = true;
                    observer.next(script);
                    observer.complete();
                };

                scriptElement.onerror = (error: any) => {
                    observer.error("Couldn't load script " + script.src);
                };

                document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(scriptElement);
            }
        });
    }
}

export interface ScriptModel {
    name: string,
    src: string,
    loaded: boolean
}

Answer 3

@d123546 I faced the same issue and got it working now using ngAfterContentInit (Lifecycle Hook) in the component like this :

import { Component, OnInit, AfterContentInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Router } from '@angular/router';
import { ScriptService } from '../../script.service';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-players-list',
    templateUrl: './players-list.component.html',
    styleUrls: ['./players-list.component.css'],
    providers: [ ScriptService ]
})
export class PlayersListComponent implements OnInit, AfterContentInit {

constructor(private router: Router, private script: ScriptService) {
}

ngOnInit() {
}

ngAfterContentInit() {
    this.script.load('filepicker', 'rangeSlider').then(data => {
    console.log('script loaded ', data);
    }).catch(error => console.log(error));
}

Answer 4

In my case, I've loaded both the js and css visjs files using the above technique - which works great. I call the new function from ngOnInit()

Note: I could not get it to load by simply adding a <script> and <link> tag to the html template file.

loadVisJsScript() {
  console.log('Loading visjs js/css files...');
  let script = document.createElement('script');
  script.src = "../../assets/vis/vis.min.js";
  script.type = 'text/javascript';
  script.async = true;
  script.charset = 'utf-8';
  document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);    
	
  let link = document.createElement("link");
  link.type = "stylesheet";
  link.href = "../../assets/vis/vis.min.css";
  document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(link);    
}

Answer 5

@rahul-kumar 's solution works good for me, but i wanted to call my javascript function in my typescript

foo.myFunctions() // works in browser console, but foo can't be used in typescript file

I fixed it by declaring it in my typescript :

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { ScriptService } from './script.service';
declare var foo;

And now, i can call foo anywhere in my typecript file

Answer 6

You can load multiple scripts dynamically like this in your component.ts file:

 loadScripts() {
    const dynamicScripts = [
     'https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js',
     '../../../assets/js/dummyjs.min.js'
    ];
    for (let i = 0; i < dynamicScripts.length; i++) {
      const node = document.createElement('script');
      node.src = dynamicScripts[i];
      node.type = 'text/javascript';
      node.async = false;
      node.charset = 'utf-8';
      document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(node);
    }
  }

and call this method inside the constructor,

constructor() {
    this.loadScripts();
}

Note : For more scripts to be loaded dynamically, add them to dynamicScripts array.