[RFC|Rejected] Template Vars in JS Files

[MichaelC]

At the moment to include template vars in javascript you need to have it actually on the main HTML template file, not included files. It makes sense to be able to use template vars in javascript files.

However, I'm not sure how this can be done due to the nature of including JS files.

[Arty]

I think you misunderstood purpose of RFC you linked to. It outputs file name, not content of file.

[MichaelC]

Ah I only skim-read it.

First post updated.

[brunoais]

Not quite sure what you are asking.
Anyway, do you mean being able to include other .js files in the same file in order to create a final minimized .js file?
I already had that idea. Dunno about implementing it or not. I didn't make an RFC about that yet because I don't have Ideas well thought yet.

If you mean including template vars that imply dynamically generated .js files that originate a .php file that needs to be executed every single time.
I really really strongly disagree.

[igorw]

This is intentional, adding templates into JS cause a lot of problems.

If we want to do that, we need to compile the JavaScript. Since these variables are not constants, we'd have to compile it on the fly, so basically generate the JS every time. Which is terrible, JS must be static and cacheable. Assetic could allow us to do it in theory.

The way you get things out of the HTML is by using data attributes. For almost all cases this works really well, because usually we're interacting with some DOM element anyway. So then we can just get the additional data associated with that element.

I totally see that there are certain use cases where this is not ideal, but I still think it's better to keep things separate, because it separates HTML and JS cleanly.

I think it's a bad idea.

[callumacrae]

I've been using data attributes and AJAX for stuff like this.

@UB: Search "script.php" - I've already made an RFC for this

[MichaelC]

@UB: Search "script.php" - I've already made an RFC for this

I searched but that didn't come up. In that case I'll make this as rejected.