Astro - how to pass data from the server- to the client-side JavaScript
I'm sorry for not providing any code but I have doubts on whether my code would be even relevant in light of my question. Also, I have no idea which part of the code could be helpful, so, when asked for, I'll provide the requested part of the code, probably using some playground.
I'm coding a relatively simple website, using Astro, and I seem to have an issue with passing data between the server- and client-side JavaScript.
The thing is, I'm fetching some data inside the server-side JavaScript (Front Matter) and need those inside my client-side JavaScript, to simply filter them.
I did some research and found out that, to be able to achieve my goal, I can:
* use
define:vars - this doesn't seem to work though, because I got a TypeScript error saying basically that this is not the TypeScript file (screen below). And I can actually imagine it isn't, since when the data is fetched from the server, I don't really have any .ts files, only the .js ones. But shouldn't Astro take care of it on the production mode?
* do this: https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/client-side-scripts/#pass-frontmatter-variables-to-scripts - and this one actually works. But, to be able to pass my data, I had to create an empty div and assign my whole array of (15 as of now) objects as a data-attribute. Which, I have no doubts, is the worst possible approach since I have all of this in my HTML markup (what if I had a million objects, instead of 15?). So, currently, I treat this as a temporary workaround, to be able to test the filtering library I intend to use.
* do some other stuff (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73511984/how-do-i-pass-a-server-variable-to-client-side-js-in-astro/74852745#74852745) which I don't even understand very wellAstro Documentation
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So... how do you do that? I mean, I'm pretty new to this whole SSR concept, so I feel a bit overwhelmed by that but I'm sure there has to be the way to do that. Like... people don't fetch data on a client-side when working with SSR-supporting technologies, do they?
So... I actually hope, I'm just the stupid one here and I'm just doing something wrong (I'm quite a begginer to both Astro and SSR, so it's highly probable 🙈) and there is a simple solution here that I just don't know about.