Ability to Import as a Module about gantt

[ranebo]

Try import 'dhtmlx-gantt';
Then the gantt variable is accessible.
You will also need to import the css file either by the cdn or importing from the node_modules directory into your style sheet:
@import "../node_modules/dhtmlx-gantt/codebase/dhtmlxgantt.css"

[gewisser]

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[kgish]

+1

[robv8r]

The best I could do is use bower. @plazarev and @Stanislav-Wolski are there any plans to migrate the JavaScript to either CJS, AMD, or ES6 so that we can use it in places other than a browser?

[robv8r]

One option would be to port the Gantt to TypeScript and have it produce any module you like. My preference would be UMD since it covers nearly all use cases.

[AlexKlimenkov]

Hi,
currently, there are no plans to publish CJS/ES6/AMD compatible builds. Not in the sense that it was rejected, but we didn't do any research so far due to a very little demand. We have type definitions for TS https://www.npmjs.com/package/@types/dhtmlxgantt , so everything should be pretty usable with the TypeScript. The type definitions are a bit behind the latest version of gantt though, we'll update them soon.
Probably, we could wrap gantt declaration into UMD and keep current global declaration in order to break any compatibility, if it makes sense.

Regarding using dhtmlxgantt outside a browser - it's unlikely to happen soon, since again, we haven't researched it, and from the first look it may require quite a bit of change all around the codebase. Can you give me a use-case when you'll want to run gantt outside the browser?

I've added both items (CJS/AMD/UMD and running outside a browser) to the tracker to investigate later.

Closing the issue for now. Feel free to reopen the issue if you have any comments.

[sergids]

Feature already added in the last release