Glossary

application

An application is an instance of annotator.App. It is the primary object that coordinates annotation activities. It can be extended by passing a module reference to its ~annotator.App.prototype.include method. Typically, you will create at least one application when using Annotator. See the API documentation for annotator.App for details on construction and methods.

hook

A function that handles work delegated to a module by the application. A hook function can return a value or a Promise. The arguments to hook functions can vary. See module-hooks for a description of the core hooks provided by Annotator.

module

A module extends the functionality of an application, primarily through hook functions. See the section module-development for details about writing modules.

Promise

An object used for deferred and asynchronous computations. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise for more information.