[bug] mediaURL 404 (Not Found)

[spier]

When checking the logs of the browser console, I noticed one error that gets reported there:

index.html:104 GET http://127.0.0.1:8080/[[mediaURL]] 404 (Not Found)

There are many more placeholder values in index.html that are similar to [[mediaURL]]. However somehow only this instance in line 104 is causing an error.

You can also confirm this in the demo project.

[Michadelic]

That's because of the HTML templates which are stored in the HTML page directly. The browser parses them and tries to resolve the src with a template variable. An alternative to avoid this would be to not set the "src" attribute and set it while filling the template or to load the templates from a separate file to avoid the initial parsing.

[spier]

Got it.

We spoke about the home-grown minimalistic templating system used in this project in a separate thread. Was that a conscious design decision i.e. did you want to keep this project free of a 3rd party templating system on purpose?

I am asking because when reading the source, I found that part a bit hard to understand in index.html and index.js.

And sorry if this conversation might be somewhat out of context for this issue, but it is related to the templating approach in general at least :)

[Michadelic]

Yes, i was testing out plain VanillaJS without any thirdparty for this project - feel free to suggest or introduce a templating system though if it makes maintenance of the project easier

[spier]

I am not an expert on this either. A very slim templating system would be nice though. Not urgent for sure.

[Michadelic]

I experimented a bit with Handlebars and found this implementation a lot better than the custom templating, thx for the hint

[spier]

Kind of cool that that also fixed this issue as a side effect :)