move json data fetching to a standalone module

assets/ts/dataFetch.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+interface ImageData {
+  index: string
+  url: string
+  imgH: string
+  imgW: string
+}
+
+// fetch images info from JSON
+const imageArrayElement = document.getElementById('images_array') as HTMLScriptElement
+const rawImageArray = imageArrayElement.textContent as string
+export const imagesArray: ImageData[] = JSON.parse(rawImageArray).sort(
+  (a: ImageData, b: ImageData) => {
+    if (a.index < b.index) {
+      return -1
+    }
+    return 1
+  }
+)
+export const imagesArrayLen: number = imagesArray.length

assets/ts/main.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 import { footerHeightUpdateInit } from './utils'
 import { imgIndexSpanUpdate } from './indexDisp'
-import { imagesArrayLen, trackMouseInit } from './trackMouse'
+import { trackMouseInit } from './trackMouse'
 import { thresholdCtlInit } from './thresholdCtl'
+import { imagesArrayLen } from './dataFetch'
 
 function init(): void {
   footerHeightUpdateInit()

assets/ts/trackMouse.ts

@@ -2,32 +2,13 @@ import { overlayEnable } from './overlay'
 import { posCache, FIFO, layersPosSet, center } from './utils'
 import { thresholdSensitivityArray, thresholdIndex } from './thresholdCtl'
 import { imgIndexSpanUpdate } from './indexDisp'
-
-interface ImageData {
-  index: string
-  url: string
-  imgH: string
-  imgW: string
-}
+import { imagesArrayLen, imagesArray } from './dataFetch'
 
 export interface position {
   x: number
   y: number
 }
 
-// get images info from JSON
-const imageArrayElement = document.getElementById('images_array') as HTMLElement
-const rawImageArray = imageArrayElement.textContent as string
-export const imagesArray: ImageData[] = JSON.parse(rawImageArray).sort(
-  (a: ImageData, b: ImageData) => {
-    if (a.index < b.index) {
-      return -1
-    }
-    return 1
-  }
-)
-export const imagesArrayLen: number = imagesArray.length
-
 // get layer divs
 const layer5 = document.getElementById('layer5') as HTMLDivElement
 const layer4 = document.getElementById('layer4') as HTMLDivElement