See http://www.nateyolles.com/blog/2016/06/custom-aem-html5-async-clientlibs for a detailed description regarding this project and how Sightly clientlibs work.
Create AEM clientlibs that can output async, defer, onload and crossorigin attributes on your HTML script elements. The new clientlib component works with or without clientlib minification.
The Sightly templates were updated to accept the new Sightly expression options and the ClientLib Java class was updated to accept the new bindings.
- /ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/apps/clientlib-async/sightly/templates/clientlib.html
- /ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/apps/clientlib-async/sightly/templates/graniteClientLib.html
- /ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/apps/clientlib-async/sightly/templates/ClientLibUseObject.java
The sample page using the new clientlib component:
- /ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/apps/clientlib-async-sample/components/structure/page/page.html
Included is a sample JavaScript file which loads asynchronously and excutes a function on load:
- /ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/etc/designs/clientlib-async-sample/clientlib-async-sample/script.js
A package is provided in the /package folder. Install it with Package Manager at http://localhost:4502/crx/packmgr/index.jsp or you can copy the /apps/clientlib-async folder into your project.
You can build and deploy to a running AEM instance with default values of port 4502, user admin and password admin. Navigate to the /demo directory and run:
mvn clean install -PautoInstallPackage
After building and deploying, navigate to the sample page at http://localhost:4502/content/clientlib-async-sample/en.html. View the source to verify that the clientlib-async-sample.js script element has the async void attribute and the onload attribute with a value of sayHello().
Use the clientlibs in your Sightly markup just as you would before (see Sightly intro part 5: FAQ), however, you will update the value of the data-sly-use option to point to the new clientlib component.
<head data-sly-use.clientLib="${'/apps/clientlib-async/sightly/templates/clientlib.html'}">
<!--/* for css+js */-->
<meta data-sly-call="${clientLib.all @ categories='your.clientlib'}" data-sly-unwrap></meta>
<!--/* only js */-->
<meta data-sly-call="${clientLib.js @ categories='your.clientlib'}" data-sly-unwrap></meta>
<!--/* only css */-->
<meta data-sly-call="${clientLib.css @ categories='your.clientlib'}" data-sly-unwrap></meta>
</head>
Valid values for loading are async and defer. Valid values for crossorigin are anonymous and use-credentials.
<!--/* async */-->
<meta data-sly-call="${clientLib.js @ categories='your.clientlib', loading='async'}" data-sly-unwrap></meta>
<!--/* defer */-->
<meta data-sly-call="${clientLib.js @ categories='your.clientlib', loading='defer'}" data-sly-unwrap></meta>
<!--/* defer and onload */-->
<meta data-sly-call="${clientLib.js @ categories='your.clientlib', loading='defer', onload='myFunction()'}" data-sly-unwrap></meta>
<!--/* crossorigin */-->
<meta data-sly-call="${clientLib.all @ categories='your.clientlib', crossorigin='anonymous'}" data-sly-unwrap></meta>
The project is licensed under Apache License 2.0.