Manual:JS/API/UI Extension Developer Library

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The JS/API/UI Extension Developer Library (JEDL) is a collection of pages on the MediaWiki.org website which can help developers in regards to using JavaScript (JS) within MediaWiki, MediaWiki's Application Programming Interface (API) and MediaWiki's User Interface (UI).

We expect that this will be especially useful for gadget authors — those people who extend Wikipedia and other MediaWiki sites primarily through Javascript.

JS/API/UI Extension Developer Resources [edit]

Migration guide for users

Default modules

Developing with ResourceLoader

Migration guide for extension developers

JavaScript Deprecations

List of JavaScript Deprecations

Vocabulary

Version 1 Design Specification

Version 2 Design Specification

List of ResourceLoader-compatible extensions

GlobalFunctions.php

CSS

Help desk [edit]

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Best practice? Offer possibility of auto-reporting errors

I think what User:Rillke has done here -- offering the user a way to automatically report errors -- should be considered a best practice and documented more thoroughly here.

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣‎

User:Rillke also pointed me to w:de:Wikipedia:Technik/Skin/JS which has lots of helpful pointers.

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣‎

On Polish wikipedia there is also this:

MediaWiki:Gadget-wikidebug***

Helder‎

Tracked in Bugzilla (?)
Bug 35333

And here is a request to have some sort of error reporting added to RL core.

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣‎

Intro?

I think this needs a small introductory text, perhaps defining the scope, target audience, etc. Right now it feels like merely a collection of related resources and doesn't make it clear what goal it aims to assist (maybe a few examples would help).

For instance, MAH called it "documentation for gadget authors" in the message he left me on my user page; that's a good start, I believe, but I guess it might be useful for other audiences and purposes as well.