Asynchronous Script Loading Callback
The other answers works well, but aren't super readable or require Promises. Here is my two cents:
function loadScript(src, callback) {
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.setAttribute('src', src);
script.addEventListener('load', callback);
document.head.appendChild(script);
},
A more recent snippet:
async function loadAsync(src) {
const script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = src;
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
script.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (script.readyState === 'loaded' || script.readyState === 'complete') {
script.onreadystatechange = null;
resolve(true);
}
};
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);
});
}
utilisation
loadAsync(`https://....js`).then(_ => {
// ... script loaded here
})
James Kyle's answer doesn't take IE9 into account. Here is a modified version of the code I found in the link proposed in the comments. Modify the var baseUrl so it can find the script accordingly.
//for requiring a script loaded asynchronously.
function loadAsync(src, callback, relative){
var baseUrl = "/resources/script/";
var script = document.createElement('script');
if(relative === true){
script.src = baseUrl + src;
}else{
script.src = src;
}
if(callback !== null){
if (script.readyState) { // IE, incl. IE9
script.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (script.readyState === "loaded" || script.readyState === "complete") {
script.onreadystatechange = null;
callback();
}
};
} else {
script.onload = function() { // Other browsers
callback();
};
}
}
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);
}
utilisation:
loadAsync('https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js' , function(){
chart.loadCharts();
});
// OR relative path
loadAsync('fastclick.js', null, true);
Thanks RASG for https://stackoverflow.com/a/3211647/982924
Async function with callback:
function async(u, c) {
var d = document, t = 'script',
o = d.createElement(t),
s = d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0];
o.src = '//' + u;
if (c) { o.addEventListener('load', function (e) { c(null, e); }, false); }
s.parentNode.insertBefore(o, s);
}
Usage:
async('snapabug.appspot.com/snapabug.js', function() {
SnapABug.init('XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX');
});
jsFiddle