Plugin system wishlist

[MCGallaspy]

I propose we iterate on the plugin system by creating successively more elaborate examples. Here are some motivating examples.

As I understand it we want a plugin system that does the following:

• Allow plugins to insert their own javascript in existing pages, for instance to view content or add a new coach report type.
• Allow plugins to define new views and urls.
• Allow plugins to override base templates (for a custom look-and-feel).
• Has good documentation with examples for all features.
• Has documentation of core hooks.

Additionally I'm guessing we want the following features:

• Plugin mixins to cut down on boilerplate. For example, we might have a NavItemPluginMixin that can be thrown in to painlessly add new nav menu items by simply implementing one function.
• Easily allow an app to register multiple callbacks to a hook.
• Allows users to define new hooks.

What do you all think?

[MCGallaspy]

@aronasorman @rtibbles it seems discussion for this topic is being carried out on the dev mailing list -- I'll close this issue as a result.