[QUESTION] Drag component over canvas with script, script appended multiple times.

So I dug around and figured that it was the updateScript method in the canvasView that was being called every time a script property is found on a component, regardless if its still being dragged or not over the canvas.

I did some patching to test and it seemed to have fixed the issue.

I had to overwrite it this way as I did not want to modify the original code directly, in case it gets fixed in the future.

Didn't know how to detect if the model was currently being dragged, only noticed that when the component is dropped in the canvas, updateScript is called, modelOpt had an extra attribute at, so relied on this.

Until someone makes a better, cleaner fix.

    const canvasView = editor.Canvas.getCanvasView();
    canvasView.updateScript = function(view) {
      // check if at attribute exists, if not assume we are still dragging
      if (!isUndefined(view.modelOpt.at)) {
        const model = view.model;
        const id = model.getId();        

        // check if we have previously inserted the script, if so, remove it
        let previousScript = this.getJsContainer().querySelector(`script[data-model-id="${id}"]`);
        if (previousScript !== null) previousScript.parentElement.remove();
        
        if (!view.scriptContainer) {
          view.scriptContainer = document.createElement('div');
          this.getJsContainer().appendChild(view.scriptContainer);
        }

        view.el.id = id;
        view.scriptContainer.innerHTML = '';
        // In editor, I make use of setTimeout as during the append process of elements
        // those will not be available immediately, therefore 'item' variable
        const script = document.createElement('script');
 
        // set custom attribute for script tag, in order to detect it, to remove it when dragging the same block within the canvas
        script.setAttribute('data-model-id', id);

        script.innerHTML = `
            setTimeout(function() {
              var item = document.getElementById('${id}');
              if (!item) return;
              (function(){
                ${model.getScriptString()};
              }.bind(item))()
            }, 1);`;
        // #873
        // Adding setTimeout will make js components work on init of the editor
        setTimeout(() => view.scriptContainer.appendChild(script), 0);
      }
    }

My previous solution did not work, so I had to scrap it, so I re-opened the issue.

Hi @simplecommerce if you think it's a bug, please open an issue by FOLLOWING the template and create a reproducible live demo of the issue. It's really important because as we don't have a lot of free time we risk to waste a big part of it on debugging issue not related to the library itself