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Possible extension: Version control

Script module importation could be extended to include version control. This would necessitate each script module having an associated json page mapping version numbers to old revision ids. The importScriptModule function, if given a version number as a second parameter, could first import the script module's json page, and add the oldid= parameter with the appropriate value to the url for loading the script. There should be a way of specifying partial version numbers, and/or greater-than/less-than a version number, similar to how npm does it. The exportScriptModule function would also need to know the version number, and store the exported function/object at Window.exportScriptModule[name][version]. Perhaps the json pages could be maintained by bot. - Evad37 [talk] 03:02, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Start collecting

Regardless of if this is implemented or not, it would be useful to have a collection of such "script modules" (if implemented, they form the basis of the "namespace," and if not, they could still serve its purpose). Accordingly, if anyone has a script that they want to add, please post it here (I'll think of a better system soon) so that we can keep track of them. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 04:44, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

I think this is a good idea, but have a couple of point:

With the existing syntax, I make out that not just functions, even classes can be exported? If so, that's awesome.
Perhaps you could extend the syntax to match that of mw.loader.using, allowing multiple imports to be declared in an array, so that $.when need not be used?
Is it necessary to restrict the import of scripts to the ones stored in the mediawiki namespace? While it does improve security, I don't that's a very big consideration since till now there hasn't been a single attack that vandalised the mediawiki space (right?). Most people are not interface admins. It would help people to maintain their script-modules if they aren't stored in mediawiki space.

SD0001 (talk) 05:41, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]