Your constructor can invoke the mixinModuleAssets method to "mix in" the pushAssets method:
// Mix in the ability to serve assets and templates
self._apos.mixinModuleAssets(self, 'mymodule', __dirname, options);
`
Note: never call this method if you're just extending a module that already calls it.
This adds a pushAsset method to your module, which you can use to add more client-side JavaScript to the project:
self.pushAsset('script', 'editor', { when: 'user' });
This will cause the browser to load the editor.js file found in the public/js subdirectory of your module, whenever a user is logged in.
To load a javascript file all the time, use:
self.pushAsset('script', 'content', { when: 'always' });
To load a LESS file from your public/css folder, just use:
self.pushAsset('stylesheet', 'content', { when: 'always' });
You can also push templates into the DOM so they become part of the page at the very end of the body, where you can clone them and put them to use with jQuery. Here we're pushing views/interface.html into the DOM:
self.pushAsset('template', 'interface', { when: 'user' });
. You should use this feature sparingly, and almost never with {when: 'always' }, because it adds to the size of every page that Apostrophe delivers.
If you're subclassing a module that already pushes editor, then your own editor.js will be pushed too. This makes it easier to extend modules on the browser side. This is also true for stylesheets.