importing EE javascript api into another javascript script--and not through html

Hey Folks. This is really more a question than an issue, but I though others might benefit. The javascript demos posted all have the js “application” accessing/importing the EE javascript api through the script tag <script src="/static/ee_api_js.js"></script>. I was wondering how to import this ee_api_js.js file directly into a javascript script–and avoiding the html? I did not see any demos that did that.

So say I want to execute the code below to download a url without going through html.

var mymod = require('/../javascript/ee_api_js');

var image = mymod.Image('srtm90_v4');
var path = image.getDownloadURL({
    'scale': 30,
    'crs': 'EPSG:4326',
    'region': '[[-120, 35], [-119, 35], [-119, 34], [-120, 34]]'
});
print(path);

But I get an error:

var image = mymod.Image('srtm90_v4');
                  ^
TypeError: mymod.Image is not a function

[gena]

For Node.js applications, you can try ee-runner. However, it mainly targets server-side and command-line apps and not web apps. For web apps, require() is still a relatively new feature, it may be better to still merge everything using something like Rollup or Webpack, to make sure it works with legacy browsers.

[donmccurdy]

The Earth Engine JS library is now available on NPM. See:

• https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/npm_install
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/@google/earthengine

var ee = require('@google/earthengine');