When loading up a project in the editor, built-in Javascript functions such as alert, prompt, and confirm will run. This will only happen if the .js file containing the script is included by the index.html file. It appears that the script is called via an embedded project page, because running aler…

Thank you! We’re going to ship some changes to the iframe that loads your project, which will make sure that the javascript does not run in the background from your project, until you’ve opened the side by side preview. Fortunately the iframe creates a sandbox which means that the javascript runnin…

JS file runs in the editor during loading

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wh0 December 7, 2020, 10:12pm 3

cross reference: Random redirection?

It’s confusing that it happens even when not having that “preview in editor” thing selected. Gonna appreciate those changes

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JS file runs in the editor during loading

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