Submitted by Erik Wegner
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For plotting a graph I would like to use the JavaScript library jqPlot. Adding it to Drupal 8 requires some steps, if the library is not needed on all pages:
- Define a module
- Define a library
- Define a hook
Define a module
Create a folder with the name of your module. Add an info file to it:
name: EWUS type: module core: 8.x package: Other version: 8.x-1.0
Define a library
To let Drupal know about jqPlot, we define a library. This library depends on jquery.
jqplot: css: theme: css/jquery.jqplot.css: {} js: js/blogstatistik.js: {} dependencies: - core/jquery
Define a hook
A hook is one way to extend Drupal. At its core it is a function with a special name. The function here is an implementation of hook_page_attachments. It checks if the current address points to the node where jqPlot is used:
<?php function ewus_page_attachments(array &$page) { /* /node/444 uses the jqPlot library */ $node = \Drupal::routeMatch()->getParameter('node'); if ($node !== NULL && $node->id() == 444) { $page['#attached']['library'][] = 'ewus/jqplot'; } }