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Start your free trialRicardo Guerrero
4,424 PointsHow does the 'game.js' file knows to refer to the 'phaser.js' library, while calling any of its functions or methods?
-Thank you in advance
2 Answers
Seth Kroger
56,413 PointsThere are actually a couple different ways to do this in JavaScript, so the explanation can vary. But since this is an Intro course you'll probably notice in your HTML file there are <script>
tags to load the JavaScript and the phaser.js file is loaded before the game.js file. The phaser.js file will create a variable or function called Phaser
that can be used by later files to access the library. (This is not automatic. Loading game.js won't create Game
unless it's explicitly written to do so.)
Joseph Groark
24,499 PointsIn the HTML file that you will be working add the corresponding Javascript file you want to work with (in this case phaser.js)...
By simply writing in the <script> tags (<script src="phaser.js"></script>) to the body section of the HTML it will allow use of the the functions in the Javascript file you have linked.