I am writing two Joomla components during these few days. I got a problem, how to reference a javascript file in a Joomla Component. I used to do it in a cowboy way. I hard coded the path in the template! I should keep it inside the component!

I found the documentation, in the framework, that is a method calls AddScript. It will add a script in the header section. That is nice!

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But please adding this in the component xml file:

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It makes sure the script folder will be deployed.
Reference:
Joomla Documentation