updated extensions.md

DEVLOG.md

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 * **Translation Updates:**
     * German
 
+### 2024-06-10
+* updated extensions.md with autoloading mechanism
+
 ### 2024-06-07
 * blocks: correctly record block snaps in "when () is edited" data, thanks, @dardoro, for the bug report!
 * objects: include customized primitives when enumerating primitive instances

docs/Extensions.md

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 # Snap! Extensions
 
-> Last updated May 23, 2024
+> Last updated June 10, 2024
 
 Snap! Extensions take the idea of a library, and expand it by allowing you to add your own JavaScript code.
 Much of the work happens through two (hidden) primitive blocks.
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 "src_load(url)" command for your external JS file before calling any of its
 added functions.
 
+#### autoloading JavaScript files
+
+If you want a library of custom blocks to automatically also load an external JavaScript file - and possibly also perform an initialization - you can include a global variable in the blocks library whose name has to begin with the word "module" enclosed in double-underscores (``__module__``), and whose value can be the url of a JavaScript file to be loaded. Notice that you can hide such a variable in the palette so the user will not be confused by its presence.
+
 ### 5. Miscellaneous
 
 #### calling extension primitives in other JavaScript functions