How to play audio?

Question

I am making a game with HTML5 and JavaScript.

How could I play game audio via JavaScript?

Answer 1

I had some issues related to audio promise object returns and some issues related to user interaction with sounds I end up using this small object,

I would recommend to implement the play sounds the closest to the interaction event user is using.

var soundPlayer = {
  audio: null,
  muted: false,
  playing: false,
  _ppromis: null,
  puse: function () {
      this.audio.pause();
  },
  play: function (file) {
      if (this.muted) {
          return false;
      }
      if (!this.audio && this.playing === false) {
          this.audio = new Audio(file);
          this._ppromis = this.audio.play();
          this.playing = true;

          if (this._ppromis !== undefined) {
              this._ppromis.then(function () {
                  soundPlayer.playing = false;
              });
          }

      } else if (!this.playing) {

          this.playing = true;
          this.audio.src = file;
          this._ppromis = soundPlayer.audio.play();
          this._ppromis.then(function () {
              soundPlayer.playing = false;
          });
      }
  }
};

And implement it as follow:

Play