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Passing variables from Flask to JavaScript

I looked at similar forums but was not able to get any of the solutions to work. I am trying to pass variables from Flask to my JavaScript file. These values then will be used for PubNub from my JavaScript file.

Here is part of my Python code: 

@app.route("/mysettings/")
def user_settings(): 
        return render_template('Settings.html',  project_name = session['project_name'] , publish_key = session['publish_key'] , subscribe_key = session['subscribe_key'] )

Here is part of my JavaScript code (app.js):

var settings = {
        channel: {{project_name}},
        publish_key: {{publish_key}},
        subscribe_key: {{subscribe_key}}
    };

this code works if I use it in my Settings.html file but not in the app.js file.

Solution

  • The mobiusklein answers is pretty good, but there is "hack" you should consider. Define your Javascript method to receive params and send data as params to your function.

    main.py

    @app.route('/')
def hello():
    data = {'username': 'Pang', 'site': 'stackoverflow.com'}
    return render_template('settings.html', data=data)

    app.js

    function myFunc(vars) {
    return vars
}

    settings.html

    <html>
    <head>
         <script type="text/javascript" {{ url_for('static', filename='app.js')}}></script>
         <script type="text/javascript">
            myVar = myFunc({{data|tojson}})
         </script>
    </head>
</html>