From bugzilla-daemon@bugs.koha-community.org Thu Aug 13 05:01:50 2026
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Subject: [Koha-bugs] [Bug 43285] New: Add Koha Plugin JS ESM module registry
 and loader
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:01:49 +0000
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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3D43285

            Bug ID: 43285
           Summary: Add Koha Plugin JS ESM module registry and loader
   Initiative type: ---
        Sponsorship ---
            status:
           Product: Koha
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Plugin architecture
          Assignee: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: dcook@prosentient.com.au
        QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: kyle@bywatersolutions.com,
                    martin.renvoize@openfifth.co.uk, tomascohen@gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

There's been really cool work done on having Koha plugins add Vue.js content =
to
Koha. See the following:

Bug 42150 - Allow plugins to register Vue islands via registerIsland()
Bug 42189 - Allow plugins to inject dashboard widgets via a shared Vue widget
registry

However, they rely on the existing intranet_js hook which means they need to
generate HTML to be injected as <script> elements into Koha templates. While
functional, it's not as optimal and seamless as it could be.

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I'm proposing a Koha core API endpoint which will return URLs to Javascript
modules (specifically ESMs) based on a provided "context key".=20

A Koha page will query this API endpoint with a context key like "smtp_server=
s"
or "catalogue-detail" or whatever really.

The API endpoint will then invoke a Koha Plugin Perl plugin hook like
"esm_module_provider" (or whatever), which will compile of list of URLs of ES=
Ms
from Koha Plugins to load dynamically into that Koha HTML page.

This is pure Javascript with no HTML created via Perl.=20

When combined with "Bug 26129 - Add a new 'configurations' table", this could
be an extremely powerful tool for customizing Koha using plugins, especially
with a Javascript + API driven model.

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From bugzilla-daemon@bugs.koha-community.org Thu Aug 13 05:02:22 2026
From: bugzilla-daemon@bugs.koha-community.org
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Subject:
 [Koha-bugs] [Bug 43285] Add Koha Plugin JS ESM module registry and loader
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:02:20 +0000
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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=43285

David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> changed:

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           See Also|                            |https://bugs.koha-community
                   |                            |.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi
                   |                            |?id=26129,
                   |                            |https://bugs.koha-community
                   |                            |.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi
                   |                            |?id=42150,
                   |                            |https://bugs.koha-community
                   |                            |.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi
                   |                            |?id=42189,
                   |                            |https://bugs.koha-community
                   |                            |.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi
                   |                            |?id=42870

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From bugzilla-daemon@bugs.koha-community.org Thu Aug 13 08:29:33 2026
From: bugzilla-daemon@bugs.koha-community.org
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Subject:
 [Koha-bugs] [Bug 43285] Add Koha Plugin JS ESM module registry and loader
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:29:30 +0000
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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=43285

Paul Derscheid <paul.derscheid@lmscloud.de> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Paul Derscheid <paul.derscheid@lmscloud.de> ---
This sounds like a good idea!

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From bugzilla-daemon@bugs.koha-community.org Fri Aug 14 00:24:52 2026
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Subject:
 [Koha-bugs] [Bug 43285] Add Koha Plugin JS ESM module registry and loader
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:24:51 +0000
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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=43285

--- Comment #2 from David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> ---
(In reply to Paul Derscheid from comment #1)
> This sounds like a good idea!

I'm so happy to hear you say that!

I was slightly worried that it was a caffeine-fuelled brain frenzy on my part,
but I'm looking forward to trying this out.

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