david
March 6, 2017, 12:47am
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For the JavaScript side of things, you want the plugin api
Later today I am going to be merging our new post rendering engine into master. Swapping out Ember/HTMLBars for a virtual-dom based renderer provides us with a huge performance increase, but it also has the side effect of being incompatible with how plugins were previously made.
While doing this work, it occurred to me that we made a fairly big mistake in the past by not providing a mechanism for versioning the public APIs used by client side code. We used to encourage people to just dump in w…
The source code is well documented
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/lib/plugin-api.js.es6
It took me a while to find it - maybe a link to the API topic could be added to the JavaScript section of the “Beginners guide to creating discourse plugins” @eviltrout
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