Script generated should have possibility to have type module

[vtamara]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The problem is with a graph I need to update dynamically in a web application where I initialize ApexChart in a module. If I use the option defer, the graph shows first time but it doesn't update dynamically, and if I dont' use the option defer it doesn't show up the first time but it is updated correctly.

To be more concrete:

• This is the web application https://github.com/pasosdeJesus/sivel2 (information system to manage cases of political violence) recently updated to rails7, bundling javascript resources with both sprockets and esbuild+jsbundling-rails
• I'm initializing Apexchart in the file app/javascript/application.rb (see https://github.com/pasosdeJesus/sivel2/blob/main/app/javascript/application.js ) that in rails7 is run as module after the full HTML has been loaded. (I know I could load and initialize apexchart in the part managed with sprockets but I prefer to do it in the part bundled with jsbundling-rails+esbuild).
• There is a bar_chart (or column_chart depending on the user input) for authenticated users in the route conteos/personas (countings about demography of victims like sex, age, etc.), see https://github.com/pasosdeJesus/sivel2_gen/blob/main/app/views/sivel2_gen/conteos/_personas_grafica.html.erb. This graph can be updated dynamically when the users select different filters or aggregations for the graph (see https://github.com/pasosdeJesus/sivel2_gen/blob/main/app/views/sivel2_gen/conteos/personas.js.erb )
• If I don't use the defer option, usually the chart is not presented when the route is loaded first time because it tries to use ApexChart before its initialization.
• If I use the defer option it is presented the first time correctly but it is not updated automatically when the users selects a new filter or aggregation criteria (because in the controller I use format.js to run a javascript that updates part of the page including the apexchar.rb <script> tag that will not run because it is defered.

Describe the solution you'd like

That I could keep the initialization of Apexchart in a module and at the same time that I could keep using format.js to update dynamically the generation of the chart. (In future I'm planning change format.js for format.html and turbo or javascript).

Describe alternatives you've considered

I have experimented by changing apexchart.rb and found that if the non-defered script created by apexchart.rb has type='module' instead of type='text/javascript' I will have the result I expect, the graph is presented correctly initially and can be updated responding to user input by updating the script.

Analogous to the option defer, I think there should be an option module for the charts of apexchart.rb that would implement this behavior.

Additional context

• Wihouth defer it will not present the graph first time:

• With defer it will present the chart first time: but not when the user upates the filter:

[vtamara]

The PR #80 implements this feature

[vtamara]

Since #80 was merged, I'm closing this.