Newbie question about developing extensions

[goodwill]

Hey there,

I've been trying to create extensions for EspoCRM and I've hit a little snag. I'm following the instructions to a tee. When I try to go to my extension in UI, EspoCRM starts looking for my controller in transpiled/src/controllers. But my controller is over at client/custom/mymodule/src/controllers/mycontroller.js.

Is there any step that I'm missing , do I have to transpile my extension, I'm not using ES6

Thanks a bunch!

[yuri]

Hi,

Did you run:

node build --copy

https://github.com/espocrm/ext-template?tab=readme-ov-file#copying-extension-files-to-espocrm-instance

You can also configure a file watcher in the IDE so that changed files are automatically copied and transpiled whenever you save. https://github.com/espocrm/ext-templ...e#file-watcher

[goodwill]

Oh, I didn't use ext-template, I'm doing it the old way but in the latest version, I have a local instance that I built from source, I did grunt offline
How can I do it without ext-template?

[yuri]

You don't need to transpile then. Maybe you have jsTranspiled enabled in custom/Espo/Modules/YourModuleName/Resources/module.json

All our extensions don't use ES6 yet, and work fine. For example, ext-real-estate.

[goodwill]

That did the trick 😍

If I were to use ES6 does grunt offline do the trick or do I have to transpile another way

[yuri]

If you want to use ES6, better to use ext-template as it has all needed tools.

[goodwill]

What does this section do ?

{
"scriptList": [
"__APPEND__",
"client/custom/modules/{@nameHyphen}/lib/init.js"
]
}

Do I have to create /lib/init.js? What should i put inside of it ?

I did create using ext-template, I see this file Resources/metadata/app/client.json has been created but there is no lib folder or init.js anywhere

[goodwill]

What does this section do ?

{
"scriptList": [
"__APPEND__",
"client/custom/modules/{@nameHyphen}/lib/init.js"
]
}

Do I have to create /lib/init.js? What should i put inside of it ?

I did create using ext-template, I see this file Resources/metadata/app/client.json has been created but there is no lib folder or init.js anywhere

I think i did figure it out using schema file

JS files to include on the HTML page. Use __APPEND__ to append custom values w/o removing existing.

[goodwill]

Sorry to bother again
But i have no luck using ES6 😔 when I try to access my view it's looking for this file

site/client/custom/modules/learn-espo/lib/transpiled/src/views/learnespo.js

when I check the site/client/custom/modules/learn-espo/lib/ there is just init.js which is empty ( i created an empty file init.js in lib )

[goodwill]

I just wanted to create a View and Template and Access it using

http://127.0.0.1/espo/site/#LearnEspo

I could do it using the old way but using ES6 seems I'm missing something

[yuri]

I'm not sure I understand. If you want to use ES6, I can only recommend to start from scratch with the ext-template. It's too complicated w/o it.