CustomJS, Node.js and npm add

Developers: Plugin & API
1

Hi, I’m getting myself confused and going around in circles so hoping someone can help.

I’m a good enough developer that I know how to cut code, but with new environments such as CustomJS in Obsidian my knowledge is lower than it needs to be.

I find I keep needing to add a node package into CustomJS but none of the require statements work. If I run npm add <package> where will the files go (my past experience is in the subfolder of the code I’m working on - and I don’t want that all in my vault). but if I use npm add -g <package> it installs centrally and is never picked up.

Q1: Is it even possible to add new node packages for CustomJS?

Q2: If so, how?

Q3: If not, how do people work around it?

Thanks in advance, David

2

From my knowledge CustomJS doesn’t support external npm packages. But its competitor CodeScript Toolkit does.

P.S. I’m the author of CodeScript Toolkit

1 Like
3

“Competitor”. Them be fightin’ words.

I’ll have a look. Thanks.

4

@mnaoumov I got CodeScript Toolkit working. Looking to do some image manipulation. I know it’s working because Jimp was accessible - but it doesn’t do webp! Trying to use Sharp instead and it seemed to be partially loading. I couldn’t work out why. Seemed to load some supporting .js files but not all. Should I be trying the async method? It could also have been missing supporting libraries?

5

@dcb Create an issue in GitHub, attach the problematic vault with scripts and I will take a look

6

I’ve got a couple of days to play with it. Will see what I can solve myself. Thanks for the offer.

1 Like