Plugin Framework
require("ep_etherpad-lite/static/js/plugingfw/plugins")
plugins.update
require("ep_etherpad-lite/static/js/plugingfw/plugins").update() will use npm to list all installed modules and read their ep.json files, registering the contained hooks. A hook registration is a pair of a hook name and a function reference (filename for require() plus function name)
hooks.callAll
require("ep_etherpad-lite/static/js/plugingfw/hooks").callAll("hook_name", {argname:value}) will call all hook functions registered for hook_name with {argname:value}.
hooks.aCallAll
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