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JavaScript JavaScript Objects Loop Through Objects Display an Array of Objects on the Page – One Solution

Posted by i1276
i1276
7,626 Points

How can the 2nd js file use array from 1st js file?

I was just wondering, what if directory.js also has a variable called "pet", what would happen then?

I thought we had to do some kind of import before using the array from another javascript file

1 Answer

Bob Swaney
Bob Swaney
13,010 Points
Bob Swaney
Bob Swaney
13,010 Points

When using 'vanilla' JavaScript and placing a script tag under the first script tag in the .html file, it is allowing the browser to load the first contents of the first .js file (i.e. pets.js) thereby loading in the pets array. If for some reason both files had global variables that were named the same thing, then yes, there would be an Error thrown due to the conflicting names. In other types of JS libraries such as Express, there are import types of methods to use modules and pieces of scripts from one file into another; Here we are just using one file as a data structure and another as a small piece of code, so there aren't any conflicts.

Hope this helps!