Initializer Plugins

The Plugins installed at Constants.INITIALIZER or 'Molten.Initializer' are invoked after as the first step in Molten.create(). These plugins should have an id, sort, and init( molten ) function as properties. This function can be async and the next initializer in the chain will not be called until the one before it finishes.

Initializers can initialize objects from the config options (molten.getConfig()) and make them available to other steps by calling molten.set( key, value ) or molten.setThunk( key, ).

Example

PluginSetup

File MyInitializer.js.

  export default {
    id : 'my.Initializer',
    sort : -5, // defaults to 0, 
    init : ( molten ) => {
      const api = new Api( molten.getConfig( 'api' ) ) 
      molten.set( 'api' )
      molten.setThunkArg( 'api', api )
    }
  }

Be sure to install your plugin in your PluginSetup.js file.

  Plugin.add( 'Molten.Initializer', MyInitialize )

Default Initializers

The inital Molten setup will install the following plugins as Initializer Plugins.

Type	Sort	Description
molten.LoadConfig	-1000000	This will take values from config.plugins.config and call Config.set( resource, key, value ). The config.plugins.config should be configured with as { : { : } }
molten.Splash	-100000	This will create a splash screen based on the config's molten.splashClass, if present.
molten.ApiInit	-100	This will create an Api object to interface to Leverege's platform and advertise it as a the 'api' thunk argument and the value 'api' in Molten's values.
molten.RouterInit	-30	Creates a history object and sets it as 'history' in molten's values.