JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground
HTML
<!-- Import javascript -->
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.2.min.js"></script>
<!-- Invoke a different javascript file called subscript.js -->
<script id="myscript" src="subscript.js" video_filename="foobar.mp4">/script>
JavaScript
//Use jquery to look up the tag with the id of 'myscript' above. Get
//the attribute called video_filename, stuff it into variable filename.
var filename = $('#myscript').attr("video_filename");
//print filename out to screen.
alert(filename);