loadLink

Load a given source as a link.

Usage

import { loadLink } from '@studiometa/js-toolkit/utils';

const src = '/path/to/my/styles.css';
const { event, element } = await loadLink(src);

if (event.type === 'error') {
  console.log(`Failed to load ${src}: ${event.message}`);
} else {
  console.log(`${src} has been loaded!`);
}

Parameters

• src (string): the source URL to load
• options ({ appendTo?: HTMLElement }): configure the loader behavior
  • options.appendTo (HTMLElement): append the created element to a DOM element

Return value

• Promise<{ event: Event, element: HTMLelement }>: a promise resolving to an object containing both the load event object and the created element

Examples

Avoid loading the same link multiple times

You can combine the loadLink function with the memo function to add an in memory cache layer. This will make the generated function always return the same generated element.

import { loadLink, memo } from '@studiometa/js-toolkit';

const loadLinkWithCache = memo(loadLink);
const promise = loadLinkWithCache('style.css');
const promise2 = loadLinkWithCache('style.css');

console.assert(promise === promise2); // true

const [result, result2] = await Promise.all([promise, promise2]);

console.assert(result === result2);

Cache invalidation

Be aware that the memo function will use a simple arguments.join('') call to generate the cache key, thus ignoring any change in the options parameter of the loadLink function.

const loadLinkWithCache = memo(loadLink);

const result = await loadLinkWithCache('style.css', {
  appendTo: document.head,
});
const result2 = await loadLinkWithCache('style.css', {
  appendTo: document.body,
});

console.assert(result === result2); // true

console.log(result.element.parentElement); // document.head
console.log(result2.element.parentElement); // document.head