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CODING.md
* Document the procedure for adding a new javascript class

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# VisualEditor Code Guidelines
We inherit the code structure (about whitespace, naming and comments) conventions
from MediaWiki. See [Manual:Coding conventions/JavaScript#Code structure](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions/JavaScript#Code_structure) on mediawiki.org.
## Documentation comments
* End sentences in a full stop.
* Continue sentences belonging to an annotation on the next line, indented with an
additional space.
* Types in documentation comments should be separated by a pipe character. Use types
that are listed in the Types section of this document, otherwise use the identifier
(full path from the global scope) of the constructor function (e.g. `{ve.dm.BranchNode}`).
### Generate documentation
#### Gem (Mac OS X)
Ruby ships with OSX but may be outdated. Use [Homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/):
```
$ brew install ruby
```
If you've never used `gem` before, don't forget to add the gem's bin to your `PATH` ([howto](http://stackoverflow.com/a/14138490/319266)).
#### Install
Once you have gem, installing [JSDuck](https://github.com/senchalabs/jsduck) is easy:
```
$ gem install jsduck
```
#### Run
```
$ cd VisualEditor
$ .docs/generate.sh
# open http://localhost/VisualEditor/docs/
```
For more options:
```
$ jsduck --help
```
### Annotations
We use the following annotations. They should be used in the order as they are described
here, for consistency. See [JSDuck/Tags](https://github.com/senchalabs/jsduck/wiki/Tags) for more elaborate documentation.
* @class Name (optional, guessed)
* @abstract
* @extends ClassName
* @mixins ClassName
* @constructor
* @private
* @static
* @method name (optional, guessed)
* @template
* @property name (optional, guessed)
* @until Text: Optional text.
* @source Text
* @context {Type} Optional text.
* @param {Type} name Optional text.
* @emits name
* @returns {Type} Optional text.
* @chainable
* @throws {Type}
### Types
Special values:
* undefined
* null
* this
Primitive types:
* boolean
* number
* string
Built-in classes:
* Array
* Date
* Function
* RegExp
* Object
Browser classes:
* HTMLElement
jQuery classes:
* jQuery
* jQuery.Event
## Add a new javascript class
When a new javascript class is added, the file must be referenced in a number of places
before it can be used.
Test files:
* VisualEditor.hooks.php in onResourceLoaderTestModules
Regular files:
* .docs/categories.json in General->Utilities (or somewhere more specific)
* VisualEditor.php in ext.visualEditor.core (or somewhere more specific)
* Run `php maintenance/makeStaticLoader.php --target demo --write-file demos/ve/index.php`
* Run `php maintenance/makeStaticLoader.php --target test --write-file modules/ve/test/index.php`
makeStaticLoader.php is a maintenance script to automatically generate an HTML document fragment
containing script tags in dependency order (for standalone environments without ResourceLoader).