I'm using jQuery with jsdom in my node.js app.
Moreover, I want to use jQuery plugins(e.g. jQuery.diff), but I cannot find how to do this. Is there any way out?
2 Answers
Create a script tag in your document to load your script into it. Example:
createWindow = function(fn) {
var window = jsdom.jsdom().createWindow(),
script = window.document.createElement('script');
jsdom.jQueryify(window, function() {
script.src = 'file://' + __dirname + '/some.library.js';
script.onload = function() {
if (this.readyState === 'complete') {
fn(window);
}
}
});
}
createWindow(function(window) {
// Do your jQuery stuff:
window.$('body').hide();
});
Source: http://blog.davidpadbury.com/2010/10/03/using-nodejs-to-render-js-charts-on-server/
3 Comments
David Padbury
Just to clarify, that jQueryify method is effectively doing the same thing as the some.library.js load call. Take a look at github.com/tmpvar/jsdom/blob/master/lib/jsdom.js#L34.
balu
Just to save you guys some time: There are at the moment some issues with jsdom and nodejs >= 0.2.3. In the context of a script, window evaluates to {} because of the way sandboxing changed.
mhayashi
Thanks. It works. I should have carefully read the package's document.
I have a library that I'm working on which is a port of jquery to node - bit.ly/node-jquery
The goal is to do var $ = require('node-jquery') and use jquery libraries or functions as normal
1 Comment
mhayashi
Thanks, but I can use jQuery with jsdom.jQuerify(). I want to know how to evaluate a jQuery plugin's .js file in the node.js app.