Category: javascript

I want to use the following JQuery plugin as part of my React app, and haven’t had success in doing so: http://viima.github.io/jquery-comments/#link-3. This is a comments plugin that creates threads/replies.

Currently, I’ve tried to integrate it as follows, but to no avail:

import React, { Component } from "react";
import $ from "jquery";
import "./jquery-comments.css";
import "./jquery-comments";

class Comments extends Component {
  componentDidMount() {
    this.$el = $("#comments-container");
    this.$el.comments({
      profilePictureURL:
        "https://viima-app.s3.amazonaws.com/media/public/defaults/user-icon.png",
      getComments: function (success, error) {
        var commentsArray = [
          {
            id: 1,
            created: "2015-10-01",
            content: "Lorem ipsum dolort sit amet",
            fullname: "Simon Powell",
            upvote_count: 2,
            user_has_upvoted: false,
          },
        ];
        success(commentsArray);
      },
    });
  }

  render() {
    return <div ref={(el) => (this.el = el)}></div>;
  }
}

export default Comments;

I have a date range picker on my website.

When a user inputs the date and time range, I want to send separately within the form the startDate and the endDate

daterangepicker code:

    $('input[name="datetimes"]').daterangepicker({
        timePicker: true,
        timePickerIncrement: 5,
        startDate: moment().startOf('hour'),
        endDate: moment().startOf('hour').add(32, 'hour'),
        locale: {
          format: 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm'
        },
        opens: 'center',
        drops: 'auto'
    });

And this is what I tried:

$('#formid').submit(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    let startDate = ($('#datetimes').data('daterangepicker').startDate).format('YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm');
    let endDate = ($('#datetimes').data('daterangepicker').endDate).format('YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm');
    $(this).append('<input type="hidden" name="start_date" value='+startDate+' /> ');
    $(this).append('<input type="hidden" name="end_date" value='+endDate+' /> ');
    this.submit();
});

Before the this.submit(); I did a console.log(startDate) and thi is what I am getting:

I am getting the date and the time (as expected), but then if I try doing a print(request.POST) in the view (django back-end), this is what I get:

Somehow, during the POST the HH:mm disappeared.

How can I keep the values of hh:mm during the POST?

I’m seeing a lot of Javascript plugins utilizing a pattern like the one below in the beginning of the main plugin script.

I’ve tried looking up the Internet but couldn’t find any explanation and I don’t have any idea why this is needed.

Excerpt from Datatables:

(function( factory ) {
    "use strict";

    if ( typeof define === 'function' && define.amd ) {
        // AMD
        define( ['jquery'], function ( $ ) {
            return factory( $, window, document );
        } );
    }
    else if ( typeof exports === 'object' ) {
        // CommonJS
        module.exports = function (root, $) {
            if ( ! root ) {
                // CommonJS environments without a window global must pass a
                // root. This will give an error otherwise
                root = window;
            }

            if ( ! $ ) {
                $ = typeof window !== 'undefined' ? // jQuery's factory checks for a global window
                    require('jquery') :
                    require('jquery')( root );
            }

            return factory( $, root, root.document );
        };
    }
    else {
        // Browser
        factory( jQuery, window, document );
    }
}
(function( $, window, document, undefined )
...

Excerpt from Slick.js

;(function(factory) {
    'use strict';
    if (typeof define === 'function' && define.amd) {
        define(['jquery'], factory);
    } else if (typeof exports !== 'undefined') {
        module.exports = factory(require('jquery'));
    } else {
        factory(jQuery);
    }

}(function($) {
...