Javascript questions which don't deserve their own thread.

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KoRMaK: Jul 31, 2012

This feels like a really stupid question but I cant figure out what the transom I have to bridge is: I have a webpack that has sortablejs in it, and I'd like to be able to call sortablejs from the browser's dev tools console, just like i could when I was using jquery, so I can interactively play around with it. how do I do that? my full tech stack is rails and yarn based

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KoRMaK: Jul 31, 2012

necrotic posted:

The hacky stupid approach I will suggest is to do a window.sortablejs = require (�) somewhere in your sources to make the package available to the console.
debugging.

perfect! this makes a lot of sense. thank you!

code:

// app/javascript/packs/application.js
import Sortable from 'sortablejs';

window.sortablejs = Sortable

// dev tools console
sortablejs.get(demo1).toArray()
(5)�['3v8', '3ve', '4f9', '4g8', '44p']

# ¿ Feb 24, 2024 19:34

KoRMaK: Jul 31, 2012

Ima Computer posted:

Alternative method: set a breakpoint in your JS code in a place where where that package is available. When the debugger hits the breakpoint and JS execution is paused, your console will have access to all variables in scope for the currently executing code.

Yes I had considered this but since you are at a breakpoint time is frozen and you can't interact with the rendered browser ui as you normally would.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2024 16:44

KoRMaK: Jul 31, 2012

that's a very neat trick and has managed to dispell a lot of mystery around using node modules in my project that i just hadn't given a poo poo to dive into. now i understand how to grow another piece of my infra.

soooo long inline javascript

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