A Case for Custom Extension Hooks
Everyone’s favorite add-on developer with the last name Lewis, Stephen Lewis, says it’s important for add-on developers to include hooks in their add-ons to allow for custom extensions.
Not all feature requests are created equal. Some are extremely insightful and far-reaching, and improve the add-on in ways you never imagined. Most are narrow, case-specific, and don’t belong in the core product.
Extension hooks provide a means of dealing with the latter in a way that doesn’t adversely affect the core add-on.
He continues with an example of his Campaigner add-on and how allowing for custom extensions lets him, in his own words, abdicate responsibility, for special features or customizations that a developer might need for their project.
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 by Ryan Irelan
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