Last modified: 2012-07-31 19:18:23 UTC
We have lot of documentation starting from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader One thing which is lacking, would be a step by step tutorial to build an extension from scratch that will just load a css and a js.
This is a documentation bug blocking bug 1. Maybe Danielle Benoit could help?
I'm not sure it is really lacking. These two are both pretty well documented. ResourceLoader takes a lot of maintenance and set-up steps out of the developers hands. Especially for a new extension all it is is this: 1. Registering in wgResourceModules 2. Loading with OutputPage::addModules Both of which are described on on mediawiki.org. Just now I've rephrased some of that and moved it here: [[mw:ResourceLoader/Developing_with_ResourceLoader]] (#Registering and #Loading_module respectively). The other things (debugging features, special CSS anotations etc.) are optional, and were already documented under /Features and Developing_with_ResourceLoader.
We definitely have a lot of documentation about RL. What this bug is about is really writing an introduction to the resource loader for newcomers / newbies. We have recurring requests on #mediawiki about how to add a JavaScript file to an extension, I usually end up pointing people to the WikiLove extension as an example. A tutorial would let them start up their extension more easily.
See also bug 37805 which is about writing an example extension in mediawiki/extensions/examples
* bug 37805 has been fixed * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Developing_with_ResourceLoader has been improved during Wikimania 2012
Indeed, thanks a lot! :-]
