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Posted by Mostafa El
Mostafa El
3,202 Points

Overwrite existing .js file

Hey guys, I've been trying to do this for a while now and been looking and tried many things but nothing seems to be working. I have a button on my index.html which I want to call a function to write a string to an existiong .js file.

I know I can't use a client-side lang for this but what do you recommend ,why and how? PHP, Perl, Node? Take into consideration I'm hosting on Godaddy. Cheers

Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Could you explain what you're trying to accomplish and why? I'm not sure why you'd want to write to a js file.

3 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

I would like to be able to modify that content and once the user clicks save the new objects

  • Do you want this data available only to that particular client? if so you can use JSON and localStorage
  • You can also check out firebase
Mostafa El
Mostafa El
3,202 Points

Thanks Dave and thanks James I will be checking firebase out. Thanks again

Mostafa El
Mostafa El
3,202 Points
Mostafa El
Mostafa El
3,202 Points

Hey Dave, Currently I have a Web page where all the content is store in a js file as objects and the script on the page populates all the tags with the proper content. Now I would like to be able to modify that content and once the user clicks save the new objects are written to the file.

Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

I'm not sure JavaScript is the best solution for this problem. Sounds like you need a database and server side solution. Perhaps you should try our Php or Ruby on Rails tracks. You can use javascript and a server side solution without needing to write javascript files on the server.

Mostafa El
Mostafa El
3,202 Points
Mostafa El
Mostafa El
3,202 Points

That's exactly what I thought and I've tried using fopen() and fwrite() but that was an epic fail.