Armin Winkler
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Has successfully completed the online course Basics (100)Hi Christian,
I meant to say that I am not familiar with the jQuery UI library and thus do not know about any potential dependencies for that library or if it can be used in the browser only. These are usually the prerequisites / restrictions when searching for a JS library to add to an application built with Simplifier. I’ve downloaded the zip file of the library in the meantime and it seems jQuery UI can be used as an extension of your app perfectly fine. Let’s get to your questions now:
– Yes, you can leave the structure of the zip file unchanged or you can rearrange them the way it works best for you. In the addScript function then you include the path to the (minified) .js file as the first argument. Adding a new JS library to Simplifier usually only needs to be done once and from then on every developer on your Simplifier instance is able to easily add it as a dependency to their apps by the click of a button. Once correctly configured and uploaded, the structure of the zip file is not important anymore.
– Technically speaking, jQuery core is integrated into the OpenUI5 framework that every application created with Simplifier uses. As for example the Simplifier UI / frontend is also a UI5 application, jQuery can therefore be accessed from there as well. You would see potential conflicts as soon as you’ve deployed an application that has the newly added jQuery UI set as dependency and run the app. From what I can see in the source code file of jQuery UI, it simply extends the jQuery object by adding another reference under the key ui, i.e. any function added by jQuery UI should be accessible via “jQuery.ui” or “$.ui”
If you need further guidance, I would also recommend you to take a look at the libraries that are already included in our standard content package and how the addScript / addStyle functions look like for them. I will also get back to you in your support ticket as soon as it’s there in our system.
Regards,
Armin