Use of App.js in Kibana Plugin

Elastic Stack Kibana
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I have recently started with developing Visualization plugin for Kibana 4.x.

I understood couple of things from the Kibana Plugin Development Tutorial. I understand that the fist JS to be called will be index.js, and then it creates a connection to other JS files defined in uiExports.visTypes.

However, I am still unclear, how is app.js called? Or how does Kibana includes app.js file?

I am referring the basic clock plugin . Any idea on the same?

Thanks.

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In that example, do you mean clock.js?

The visualization is registered in index.js: https://github.com/timroes/tr-k4p-clock/blob/master/index.js#L9 which references public/clock.js

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Hi Tyler,

Thanks! However, I am still unclear with how to use app.js? And what is the signicance of app.js in this example? How and when is app.js called?

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Where are you seeing a reference to app.js?