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Friday April 28, 2017
Not sure what happened but there was an outage of the Steam APIs that power the DOH! Network Game Stats page. The outage is over but I see where I need to make some updates to handle outages. It might also be a good idea to not make the main api download all the games and get the base stats first to build out the basic content of the page and then get each game afterwards.
Saturday April 01, 2017

Cool things to do with JavaScript #197846:

Add a module where you put your script. Angular has a pretty cool feature where you can add an element and when Angular loads, it will add some content to that element. I don't currently use Angular on the DOH! Network homepage and wanted to add a "Now Playing" module to display what is playing on the Squeezebox so I threw a script in the header and had it do a document.write that stuck an image and label in the header. Then I got to thinking I should make it an official modules and usually I would add a div and a script but how to do it with just adding a script? Then I found a javascript way to find the parent node of my script so the module whould be added where I want it but I needed to check that some other scripts were loaded and when I did that, the module lost it's parent and targeted the body of the page. But then I found document.scripts. Check out document.scripts in your browsers Developer Tools. That will show an array of all scripts on a page. Expand that and you won't see anything interesting unless you add a name attribute to your script tag. With a name attribute, you can then find your specific script by looking for document.scripts[<unique script name>] and its parent node with document.scripts[<unique script name>].parentNode. With that, I was able to keep the module in the header and didn't need to add a target div.