Question

I’m working as a client-side developer on a web app and found myself having lots of modules, each one for different pages. I wonder is it a good idea to do include depending on route myself (in javascript) or pass this responsibility to back-end (ruby on rails) guys.

I suppose I need some application.js to be included in every page, and in it do something like this:

if (window.location.href == '.../somePage') {
    loadScript('somePageControls.js')
}

if (window.location.href == '.../anotherPage') {
    ...
}

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

ok, this is not a simple answer at all, since there are you and there are theese ruby-guys, hope everything is ok beetwen you! 😉

although if you don’t want to bother too much theese guys, ( i know it not easy to work in team ) you can ask to include just one ruby file from your working folder ex.

/web-app/ruby-guys/you/ruby-js.rb

now you can work with this unique file and load from here all the js file you need. by using for eaxmple a switch-case

case url-query
  when x
    # print out drag-drop.js
  when y, z
    # print out mouse-move.js