Tinymce Error - Failed to load plugin js files when dynamically loaded

javascript tinymce tinymce-4

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If you are using angular2+ with angular-cli, following might help you. Lets say you want to add a plugin named autoresize. Check if this plugin is present in node_modules/tinymce/plugins. If yes, do following:

1.In angular-cli.json:

"styles": [
        "../node_modules/tinymce/tinymce.js",
        "../node_modules/tinymce/themes/modern/theme.js",
        "../node_modules/tinymce/plugins/link/plugin.js",
        "../node_modules/tinymce/plugins/paste/plugin.js",
        "../node_modules/tinymce/plugins/table/plugin.js",
       **"../node_modules/tinymce/plugins/autoresize/plugin.js",/add this/**
       "../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css",
        "../node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css",
        "styles.css"
      ],

2.In the intializing component:

tinymce.init({

     ...
      plugins: ['link', 'paste', 'table','**autoresize**'],
      autoresize_bottom_margin: 50,//this is plug in requirement
      ...
    });

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Ifedi Okonkwo

Updated on July 09, 2022

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Ifedi Okonkwo almost 2 years

I'm trying to load TinyMCE dynamically like so (on clicking a button):

$.getScript('path/to/mce4/tinymce.min.js', function(){
    var def = {
        selector: 'textarea',
        body_class: 'sp-mce-editor',
        content_css : "path/to/styles/mce.css",
        plugins: ['advlist autolink lists link image charmap print preview hr anchor pagebreak searchreplace wordcount visualblocks visualchars code insertdatetime media nonbreaking table contextmenu directionality emoticons template paste textcolor fullscreen autoresize'],
        toolbar: "bold italic | alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify | bullist numlist outdent indent | link image | fontsizeselect forecolor backcolor | preview fullscreen | template",
        toolbar_items_size: 'small',
        relative_urls : false,
        convert_urls : true,
        external_plugins: { "nanospell": "path/to/mce4/nanospell/plugin.js" },
        nanospell_server:"php",
        file_browser_callback: RoxyFileBrowser,
        init_instance_callback: (typeof processEditor != 'undefined' ? processEditor : null)
   };


    tinymce.init(def);
});

With this configuration, tinyMCE fails to initialize. In the console I see several 404 errors, each with a message like this:

Failed to load: /path/to/mce4/plugins/textcolor/plugin.js

Sure on checking in the console the JS file tinymce.min.js loads correctly. Also, the /path/to/mce4/plugins/textcolor/plugin.js does not exist. But /path/to/mce4/plugins/textcolor/plugin.min.js exists, and this is true for all the js files involved (i.e. the .min.js files are there, but tinyMCE for whatever reason is looking for the .js files).

Now, when I load tinyMCE in a script tab in the <head>, there's no problem at all, and everything works well.

What could be causing this error, and how am I supposed to fix it? If this is the expected behaviour of tinyMCE, what is the correct way to dynamically load its js file for the scenario such as I am working on?