Github js file not loading (direct link)
I created a coding library for the public to use by put a <script> tag in the <head> tag but when I try to use the a function it says undefined. I linked the url to the index.js file but it doesn’t load it to the client.
<head> <script src="https://github.com/McJoe21/coderslib/blob/master/index.js"></script> </head> When I run a console.log(ranInteger(1,10)) which I have defined in my index.js file but I get a ranInteger is not defined error.
Technically speaking, GitHub doesn’t allow source code to be accessed from their site like a CDN, however from This StackOverflow Question, there is a workaround. I wouldn’t recommend using it, but you can use "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/" to get your script to work (from user @anayarojo on StackOverflow).
The url in your case would look like this:
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/McJoe21/coderslib/index.js The pattern for the URL is: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/<username>/<repository>/<file>
The file you’re attempting to import is a GitHub viewer for a file. To import the raw data for that file, you’d want to use this code:
<script> const source = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/McJoe21/coderslib/master/index.js'; fetch(source).then((response) => { return response.text() }).then((response) => { eval(response); }).catch((error) => { console.error(`An error occured while attempting to load the "${source}" resource!`); console.error(error); }); </script> Since GitHub does not directly allow the import of their user content, you will need to wrap your source URL in the above fetch-eval block.
