It would also be nice if MW could be configured to use the bundled release version of Codex by default, but switch to the local version when a URL parameter is set (e.g. ?uselocalcodex=1). That would be helpful for local development in some cases, but could also be very helpful to allow testing of both versions in beta labs (if we can get the main branch of Codex to be synchronized and built there).

• updating to 5 points because it's a change to mediawiki core
• OK to leave in "up next" for now -review at next planning mtg

This would be really nice, and also helps non-DST engineers contribute to upstream Codex, since our work is going to be motivated by real-world usage of the component library, and we need to be able to verify our changes / contributions in an MW environment.

copy the files from Codex's dist directories to the resources/lib/codex* directories (and of course there's no documentation on what to copy where).

as a starting point, if someone from DST has done this recently, could you please document the manual process in this task or in https://doc.wikimedia.org/codex ?

@kostajh I went ahead and added instructions on the Codex MediaWiki page (we're trying to keep all MediaWiki-specific docs here, to keep the Codex docs site more MediaWiki-agnostic). Hope this helps until we can automate this!

In T314507#8695401, @AnneT wrote:

@kostajh I went ahead and added instructions on the Codex MediaWiki page (we're trying to keep all MediaWiki-specific docs here, to keep the Codex docs site more MediaWiki-agnostic). Hope this helps until we can automate this!

thanks!

This should wait for T349423 to be done first, but should be more straightforward to do after that

Change #1028357 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope; author: Catrope):

[mediawiki/core@master] [WIP] Codex: Allow a local development version to be used

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1028357