Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo <at> gmail.com> writes:
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Amelia Ireland <amelia.ireland <at> gmod.org>wrote:
I want to rewrite a couple of extensions to prevent them from loading resources unless the extension is active on a page. Is there some documentation on this somewhere, or an extension that does this whose code I can examine?
This is probably what you're looking for:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Developing_ with_ResourceLoader#Client-side_.28dynamically.29
There's a JavaScript function mw.loader.using() that loads modules before calling the passed closure.
I've already used this method with one of the extensions. Is there anything on the backend / PHP side so that I can advantage of ResourceLoader script compression? It seems like it should be possible, but I don't have a thorough-enough knowledge of the innards of Mediawiki, and I can't find anything in the docs on this topic.
Thanks, Amelia.