Enhancing Gutenberg featured image control

I’ve got JavaScript that verifiably loads on the post type edit page

But did you enqueue your script with the correct dependencies? Have you checked the browser console? Did it say something like “Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘createElement’ of undefined“?

The JavaScript code in the question requires the @wordpress/element and @wordpress/hooks packages, which are available as registered (JavaScript) scripts in WordPress with wp-<the package name without the @wordpress/ part> as the script handle/identifier, e.g. wp-element for @wordpress/element and wp-hooks for @wordpress/hooks, so make sure your script has at least those dependencies.

wp_enqueue_script( 'your-script', '/path/to/your-script.js', [ 'wp-element', 'wp-hooks' ] );

Or you can also use block-editor, blocks, components, etc., which its dependencies include both wp-element and wp-hooks, as a dependency for your script.

See wp_default_packages_scripts() for the other (core/Gutenberg) script handles you can use.

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