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I have yet to build Datasette plugin and am unfamiliar with Pluggy. Since browsers have event handling builtin Datasette could communicate with plugins through it. Handlers register as listeners for custom Datasette events and Datasette's JS can then trigger said events.

I was also wondering if you had looked at Javascript Modules for JS plugins? With services like Skypack (https://www.skypack.dev) NPM libraries can be loaded directly into browser, no build step needed. Same goes for local JS if you adhere to ES Module spec.

If minification is required then tools such as Snowpack (https://www.snowpack.dev) could fit better. It uses https://github.com/evanw/esbuild for bundling and minification.

On plugins you'd simply:

javascript import {register} from '/assets/js/datasette' register.on({'click' : my_func})

In Datasette HTML pages' head you'd merely import these files as modules one by one.

Amazing work! And you've put in far more work than I'd expect to reduce the payload (which is admirable).

So, to add a plugin with the current design, it goes in (a) the template or (b) a bookmarklet, right?

Sorry to go on about it, but it's my only example ;) And thought it might be of interest/use. Here is FixMyStreet's Cypress workflow https://github.com/mysociety/fixmystreet/blob/master/.github/workflows/cypress.yml with the master script that sets up server etc at https://github.com/mysociety/fixmystreet/blob/master/bin/browser-tests (that has features such as working inside/outside Vagrant, and can do JS code coverage) and then the tests are at https://github.com/mysociety/fixmystreet/tree/master/.cypress/cypress/integration

If you're using arrow functions, you can presumably use default parameters, not much difference in support. That would save you 9 bytes. But OTOH you need "use strict"; to use arrow functions etc, and that's 13 bytes.

Your latest 250-byte one, with use strict, gzips to 199 bytes. The following might be 292 bytes, but compresses to 204, basically the same, and works in any browser (well, IE9+) at all:

var datasette=datasette||{};datasette.plugins=function(){var d={};return{register:function(b,c,e){d[b]||(d[b]=[]);d[b].push([c,e])},call:function(b,c){c=c||{};var e=[];(d[b]||[]).forEach(function(a){a=a[0].apply(a[0],a[1].map(function(a){return c[a]}));void 0!==a&&e.push(a)});return e}}}();

Source for that is below; I replaced the [fn,parameters] because closure-compiler includes a polyfill for that, and I ran closure-compiler --language_out ECMASCRIPT3:

js var datasette = datasette || {}; datasette.plugins = (() => { var registry = {}; return { register: (hook, fn, parameters) => { if (!registry[hook]) { registry[hook] = []; } registry[hook].push([fn, parameters]); }, call: (hook, args) => { args = args || {}; var results = []; (registry[hook] || []).forEach((data) => { /* Call with the correct arguments */ var result = data[0].apply(data[0], data[1].map(parameter => args[parameter])); if (result !== undefined) { results.push(result); } }); return results; } }; })();

If you could say that all hook functions had to accept one options parameter (and could use object destructuring if they wished to only see a subset), you could have this, which minifies (to all-browser-JS) to 200 bytes, gzips to 146, and works practically the same:

js var datasette = datasette || {}; datasette.plugins = (() => { var registry = {}; return { register: (hook, fn) => { registry[hook] = registry[hook] || []; registry[hook].push(fn); }, call: (hook, args) => { var results = (registry[hook] || []).map(fn => fn(args||{})); return results; } }; })();

var datasette=datasette||{};datasette.plugins=function(){var b={};return{register:function(a,c){b[a]=b[a]||[];b[a].push(c)},call:function(a,c){return(b[a]||[]).map(function(a){return a(c||{})})}}}();

Called the same, definitions tiny bit different:

js datasette.plugins.register('numbers', ({a, b}) => a + b) datasette.plugins.register('numbers', o => o.a * o.b) datasette.plugins.call('numbers', {a: 4, b: 6})