Custom scripts in WP child theme?

Question

PHP

I include a regular JS file in the child theme, my functions.php file looks like this:

<?php 
    function theme_js() {
        wp_enqueue_script( 'theme_js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/custom.js', array( 'jquery' ), '1.0', true );
    }
    
    add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_js');
?>

But what happens is that WP finds the custom.js file from the parent theme. Why is this even happening?
If I change the path and the structure of the path to the file (to be sure to take it from the child theme), then it is not found at all

wp_enqueue_script( 'theme_js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/custom/custom.js', array( 'jquery' ), '1.0', true );

In general, how to do it all right? Why doesn't WP itself determine to take the overridden JS file from the child theme, as it does with all other files?

Answer 1

Perhaps you need to connect the script file of the parent theme at the beginning, and then add your own to array, depending on the parent file.