Please load admin.js automatically in the backend

[BernhardBaumrock]

ProcessWire already loads the following files in the backend

• /site/templates/admin.php
• /site/templates/admin.less

It would be great if it could also load

• /site/templates/admin.js

automatically for all kinds of backend javascript modifications where it would be overkill to create an autoload module that loads those stylesheets.

[jmartsch]

If this is considered to be implemented, please also use the type='module' attribute, so we can use ES6 module imports.

[jlahijani]

I like this idea but I wonder about what the default path would be for admin.js for example. Personally I put all admin related things in /site/templates/admin/ as to me /site/templates/ without a subdir is more frontend and php specific.

But at the same time if you look at it another way, it does follow ProcessWire conventions that a .php and .js file would be in the same directory (ie /site/templates/admin.php which is the default admin file, meaning admin.js should stay in /site/templates/).

I suppose having the path be configurable would be recommended (similar to $config->AdminThemeUikit).

[BernhardBaumrock]

@jlahijani I'm closing this as Ryan mentioned he tries to avoid any additional file_exists() checks as much as possible.

I think the easiest approach is to add one line to admin.php in case one needs to load an admin.js file:

$config->scripts->add('/site/templates/admin.js');