The Twilight JS SDK is packaged with a variety of helpful functions that may be accessed and used straight within Templates. Previous articles in this documenation introduced Twilight Flavoured Twig. In this aricle we will go thourgh how to use the Helper functions using the Twilight SDK JS.📙 What you'll learn about#
Url Helper#
In general, the sall.url.get() helper function will return the absolute URL for the provided route, including the scheme and host.Asset Helper#
The salla.url.asset() function returns the public path of the specified asset (which can be a CSS file, a JavaScript file, an image path, etc.). This function looks at where the theme was installed (for example, if the theme is accessed in a subdirectory of the host) and, if specified, the asset package base path. It needs to be supplied with the required file's path.CDN Helper#
A content delivery network (CDN) referes to an external resource that can be used inside the theme. The The salla.url.cdn() function helps with doing that by passing the path of that external resource.is_page Helper#
This helper function determines whether if the passed route is a path, by using page slugYou can find the page slug via views by {{ page.slug }}, or via browser console bysalla.config.get('page.slug')
Money Helper#
The Money Helper is another function provided by the Twilight JS SDK that allows the developer to format a numeric value as a currency. The syntax for using this helper is salla.money(value), where value is the numeric value that you want to format as per the default currency.For example, if you want to format the number 100 as a currency, you can use the following JavaScript code:If the Arabic numbers are enabled by the merchant the will be as follows:You can also pass additional parameters to the salla.money() helper to customize the currency and locale settings, such as:Number Helper#
This helper formats any number given to an Arabic number if merchant enables it and the current language is Arabic. It will also parse decimal number representation to a decimal point in Arabic (,):Apple Pay Helper#
This helper allows checking multiple factors which are:Is apple pay enabled in this store?
Does this browser support Apple pay?
true if Apple Pay is enabled, or false if it is not enabled.Is iframe#
The helper function isIframe() determines whether a web page is being displayed within an iframe rather than a window. This function returns either true or false based on this condition.Is Preview#
isPreview() helper function is a wrapper for the above explained isIframe() helper function. 
