[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21170: JavaScript actions and filters

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#21170: JavaScript actions and filters
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 Reporter:  koopersmith      |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  4.9
Component:  General          |     Version:  3.4
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:  javascript
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Comment (by PeterRKnight):

 Regardless of the sudden change of course, will we see the hooks API on
 npm soon? It would be good to use in plugins right now.

 Although it seems reasonable to hold off on this, it is striking how
 reluctant we are to embrace things that have served WordPress well as we
 attempt to modernise. Hooks & filters are the bread and butter of
 extending WordPress, it's one of the most battle tested overwhelmingly
 successful design patterns but it seems like there's a negative bias
 against it simply because it is not new? Hooks and filters is something
 that WordPress has gotten right despite all the flack WordPress gets for
 its architectural state.

 I'm not sure there is a JS project out there that has achieved the same
 ease of customization, allowing 3rd parties to modify just about every
 behaviour and string of an app on the same scale as we find in WordPress.
 So I don't understand why we've become transfixed with JS frameworks and
 evolving practices found in projects that don't even begin to resemble or
 emulate the needs of WordPress. They're not designed for an ecosystem of
 thousands of plugin and theme developers that want the power to change
 every piece of behaviour. Instead it seems like we need the blessing of
 some mythical standard in the JS developer community rather than forging
 our own decisions based on what we know works, and perhaps even doing
 things unique to WordPress.

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