I have a web application that is written with React and bundled with Webpack. The application has a JSON config file that I want to include at runtime and not to be bundled
I ended up using a modified version of that to load my script externally. My application doesn't require the config immediately so the async aspect doesn't make a difference here.
I placed this at the top of my <head>
in applications entry page with a co-located config file.
<head>
... other scripts
<script>
var config= window.config|| {};
$.getJSON('config.json', function(response) {
config= response;
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id='root'/>
<script src='dist/app.bundle.js'></script>
</body>
If your config is not so confidential, you could do this in your index.html
<script>
var initialState = {
config: {
idleTime: 120,
fetchStatusInterval: 8,
dataPath: 'somepath.json',
},
};
window.__INITIAL_STATE__ = initialState;
</script>
<script src="static/bundle.js"></script>
And in your react application get your config with
const applicationInitialState = window.__INITIAL_STATE__;
const config = applicationInitialState.config;