How to get the file-path of the currently executing javascript code

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I m trying to do something like a C  include  filename c   or PHP include dirname   FILE     filename php   but in javascript  I know I can do this if I can get the URL a js file was loaded from  e g  the URL given in the src attribute of the  tag   Is there any way for the javascript to know that   Alternatively  is there any good way to load javascript dynamically from the same domain  without knowing the domain specifically   For example  lets say we have two identical servers  QA and production  but they clearly have different URL domains  Is there a way to do something like include  myLib js    where myLib js will load from the domain of the file loading it   Sorry if thats worded a little confusingly

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I just made this little trick    window getRunningScript        gt        return      gt                  return new Error   stack match       n     a-z              a-z0-9        js ig  0            console log   c Currently running script     color  blue   getRunningScript            Works on  Chrome  Firefox  Edge  Opera    Enjoy

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Refining upon the answers found here I came up with the following   getCurrentScript js  var getCurrentScript   function        if  document currentScript        return document currentScript src      else       var scripts   document getElementsByTagName  script        return scripts scripts length-1  src           module exports   getCurrentScript    getCurrentScriptPath js  var getCurrentScript   require    getCurrentScript     var getCurrentScriptPath   function        var script   getCurrentScript      var path   script substring 0  script lastIndexOf          return path      module exports   getCurrentScriptPath    BTW  I m using CommonJS module format and bundling with webpack

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Regardless of whether its a script  a html file  for a frame  for example   css file  image  whatever  if you dont specify a server domain the path of the html doc will be the default  so you could do  for example    lt script type text javascript src   dir jsfile js  gt  lt  script gt   or   lt script type text javascript src        scripts jsfile js  gt  lt  script gt   If you don t provide the server domain  the path will be relative to either the path of the page or script of the main document s path

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Within the script   var scripts   document getElementsByTagName  script        src   scripts scripts length-1  src    This works because the browser loads and executes scripts in order  so while your script is executing  the document it was included in is sure to have your script element as the last one on the page  This code of course must be  global  to the script  so save src somewhere where you can use it later  Avoid leaking global variables by wrapping it in    function

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I ve more recently found a much cleaner approach to this  which can be executed at any time  rather than being forced to do it synchronously when the script loads   Use stackinfo to get a stacktrace at a current location  and grab the info file name off the top of the stack   info   stackinfo   console log  This is the url of the script   info 0  file

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I ve coded a simple function which allows to get the absolute location of the current javascript file  by using a try catch method      Get script file location    doesn t work for older browsers  var getScriptLocation   function         var fileName       fileName       var stack          stack       var stackTrace     stacktrace       var loc       null       var matcher   function stack  matchedLoc    return loc   matchedLoc          try                Invalid code         0            catch  ex             if fileName in ex       Firefox             loc   ex fileName             else if stackTrace in ex       Opera             ex stackTrace  replace  called from line  d   column  d  in       gm  matcher             else if stack in ex       WebKit  Blink and IE10             ex stack  replace  at        S    d   d      g  matcher                      return loc              You can see it here

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I may be misunderstanding your question but it seems you should just be able to use a relative path as long as the production and development servers use the same path structure     lt script language  javascript  src  js myLib js    gt

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Refining upon the answers found here   little trick  getCurrentScript and getCurrentScriptPath  I came up with the following     Thanks to https   stackoverflow com a 27369985 5175935 var getCurrentScript   function           if   document currentScript  amp  amp    document currentScript src                    return document currentScript src      var scripts   document getElementsByTagName   script             str   scripts scripts length - 1  src      if   str                  return src        Thanks to https   stackoverflow com a 42594856 5175935     return new Error   stack match   https           0          Thanks to https   stackoverflow com a 27369985 5175935 var getCurrentScriptPath   function          var script   getCurrentScript            path   script substring  0  script lastIndexOf               return path

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The accepted answer here does not work if you have inline scripts in your document  To avoid this you can use the following to only target  lt script gt  tags with a  src  attribute           Current Script Path       Get the dir path to the currently executing script file    which is always the last one in the scripts array with    an  src  attr     var currentScriptPath   function           var scripts   document querySelectorAll   script src          var currentScript   scripts  scripts length - 1   src      var currentScriptChunks   currentScript split             var currentScriptFile   currentScriptChunks  currentScriptChunks length - 1         return currentScript replace  currentScriptFile            This effectively captures the last external  js file  solving some issues I encountered with inline JS templates

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All browsers except Internet Explorer  any version  have document currentScript  which always works always  no matter how the file was included  async  bookmarklet etc     If you want to know the full URL of the JS file you re in right now   var script   document currentScript  var fullUrl   script src    Tadaa

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