# A versioned API for client side plugins

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-versioned-api-for-client-side-plugins/40051>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [February 23, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-versioned-api-for-client-side-plugins/40051 "2016-02-23T19:20:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-versioned-api-for-client-side-plugins/40051/4 "2016-02-23T22:31:12Z")

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@eviltrout, previously I had `initialize(container)` so I could access siteSettings to enable/disable the showing of a toolbar button. In the new API, that seems to be via `api.container`, which is fine, but how do I do it with noApi?

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