External JavaScript

[zachleat]

Had a use case where I wanted the Google Maps API to load asynchronously after page load using enhance. Two problems:

With quickconcat, it just attempted to lump it in with the other files:

ejs.addFile ( 'http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false' );
// led to 
http://localhost/_tmpl/_css/http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false,etc

Also, I wanted to run another local file after the maps api had successfully loaded. I know this gets into a weird area with dependency management and overlap with more complex/feature-full resource loaders.

What do you think about an ejs.addExternalFile( resourceUrl, callback ) or perhaps returning a promise instead of callback hell?