Setup without build tools

[zzph]

Hi there,

I’m trying to integrate using this within a Chrome Extension as part of a service worker.

• From this repo, create a minified build of the latest version of gun.js
• Put that minified file into my project, then import it in my service worker as ‘var gun = importScripts(“./gun.js”)’

I get the welcome message (“Hello wonderful person...”), but I cannot use the library as "gun" is undefined.

Without build tools, what's the correct way to import/use this library?

Ps brilliant work on this @amark !

[amark]

I believe @bmatusiak has a fix for this in github master, not in npm yet, but you can manually shim meanwhile if you want for serviceworkers by doing window = self before import I think. Sorry!

THanks!

[bmatusiak]

importScripts(“./gun.js”)’ only imports script into context, doesn't return anything , sometimes except for the last declared variable in the scripts global scope..

quite possible that globalThis.GUN or globalThis.Gun or gloabl.GUN or gloabl.Gun exist

Require and importScript are both functions used to include modules in JavaScript files:

Require

Part of the CommonJS module system, require is used in Node.js for server-side development. It can be called from anywhere in the program, and it returns an object. Require is dynamic, meaning it loads modules during runtime, so it can be used conditionally. For example, you can use require inside conditions or functions.

ImportScript

Part of web workers, importScript loads additional code, but it pauses execution of the worker to fetch and evaluate each script. It executes scripts in the global scope, similar to a <script> tag, so variables in one script can overwrite others.

[bmatusiak]

closing this for now.. please re-open if your still having issues