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Access function in app.js
Hi,
I try to do a rather simple js interaction but fail.
In my html (index.html.eex) I got
<button onclick="doClick()">Click me!<button>
and in my app.js I got the corresponding function
function doClick() { console.log('did it') }
But I get
ReferenceError: doClick is not defined
Do I explicitly make it available somehow?
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peerreynders
<button id="myBtn">Click me!<button>
// somewhere in the top level of app.js
const btn = document.getElementById('myBtn');
btn.addEventListener('click', doClick, false);
MDN: EventTarget.addEventListener
Phoenix uses a bundler (Phoenix < 1.4 ? Brunch : webpack 4). This deliberately keeps everything out of the global space so the markup can’t find that function. Meanwhile JavaScript has no problem reaching into the DOM.
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