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    Beginner. Trying to make a simple module

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    • T Offline
      Trentent
      last edited by

      Hello, I am looking to create a module that does something simple. It’s going to query a URL for a JSON file than output the result of some property of that file. So I’m looking at ‘weatherforecast’ and a couple other modules because they seem to be doing something similar for what I want to achieve.

      I’m trying to understand the “manual” https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/tree/master/modules

      And I’m stuck here:

      *getScripts()

      Should return: Array

      The getScripts method is called to request any additional scripts that need to be loaded. This method should therefore return an array with strings. If you want to return a full path to a file in the module folder, use the this.file(‘filename.js’) method. In all cases the loader will only load a file once. It even checks if the file is available in the default vendor folder.*

      So I can create some .js with some actions and I put this script within this method and it’ll ‘load’ it?

      Ok, seems reasonable. Let’s look at weatherforecast.js:

      0_1480346827595_Screen Shot 2016-11-28 at 8.26.50 AM.png

      Ok, it’s returning a file called ‘moment.js’. The comments say “// this file is available in the vendor folder, so it doesn’t need to be avialable(sic) in the module folder.”

      So I look in the vendor folder, there is a moment folder and a vendor.js file that appears to link ‘moment.js’ to the actual file “moment-with-locales.js”.

      Then I look at moment.js and what is it doing? What does moment.js do? Is there better documentation then trying to read the javascript?

      Thanks!

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      • strawberry 3.141S Offline
        strawberry 3.141 Project Sponsor Module Developer @Trentent
        last edited by

        @Trentent http://momentjs.com/

        Please create a github issue if you need help, so I can keep track

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        • T Offline
          Trentent
          last edited by

          Cool, thank you!

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