Various people have asked for a better understanding of how Apostrophe is initialized. And an even more popular question: exactly how Apostrophe responds to an HTTP request from the browser and generates a page.
Understanding these things well gives you the ability to better change Apostrophe’s behavior.
Two new articles cover these subjects:
How Apostrophe starts up: initialization
How Apostrophe handles a request
Enjoy!
Thanks for the articles! Could you also write one about the lifecycle of a module? Recently I’ve tried creating an email module and my aim was to store its configuration inside the global, but figuring out which event to bind to was a real nightmare – first I could not figure out how to get my settings from the global module, then I spent almost a day understanding how to get the widget data (all on the backend). Having an article from the devs on this matter would have helped a lot.
That is a good question. I am not sure it requires a HOWTO… I’d be happy to answer it on Stack Overflow; would you mind reposting it there and tagging it apostrophe-cms? Thanks!