How to include an external plugin inside of another jQuery plugin being authored

Question

I am building a custom jQuery plugin for a project I am working on. I want to return an object that is custom to another jQuery plugin...rather than having to make sure that

Answer 1

You can also use getScript function from jQuery.

It could be used with callbacks for success and/or failure like:

$.getScript("somejs.js", function(data, textStatus, jqxhr) {
    console.log("callback");    
}

$.getScript("somejs.js")
.done(function(script, textStatus) {
    console.log("done callback");
})
.fail(function(jqxhr, settings, exception) {
    console.log("fail callback");
});      

Or without assigning a callback like:

$.getScript("somejs.js");            

Answer 2

Sure - you can create a new script element and append it to the head.

var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = 'url-to-plugin';
script.type = 'text/javascript';
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);

If this doesn't work, maybe try the method on this page, it's a slightly different approach using setAttribute.