{"id":121,"date":"2023-11-06T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T19:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2023-11-06T15:14:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T19:14:34","slug":"load-3rd-party-javascript-in-your-custom-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/posts\/load-3rd-party-javascript-in-your-custom-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Load 3rd party JavaScript in your custom block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The best way I&#8217;ve found to use 3rd party JavaScript in my custom blocks (for example loading AlpineJS or VueJS) is to register the script and then use viewScript to include it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Here&#8217;s an example<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In your custom block plugin PHP:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', function() {\n\t$plugin_url = plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ );\n\twp_register_script( 'script-name-goes-here', $plugin_url . \"script.min.js\", false, '1.0', true );\n});<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Then in block.json <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>\"viewScript\": &#91;'script-name-goes-here']<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that script will load on every page the block is included on, and only load once if the block is used multiple times on the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best way I&#8217;ve found to use 3rd party JavaScript in my custom blocks (for example loading AlpineJS or VueJS) is to register the script and then use viewScript to include it. Here&#8217;s an example In your custom block plugin PHP: Then in block.json Now that script will load on every page the block is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}