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Plain JS Plugin

Quick start

1. yarn - to install dependencies
2. yarn start - to start development mode - rebuild on file modifications
3. update your plugin-manifest.json file to contain the production URL and other plugin information
4. yarn build - to build plugins

Dev environment

Dev environment is configured to use:

• prettier - best used with automatic format on save in IDE
• eslint - it is built into both start and build commands

Output

The plugins are built into a single dist/index.js file. The manifest is copied to dist/plugin-manifest.json file.

Deployment

Loading the plugin

Warning: While developing, you can use https://localhost:3053/plugin-manifest.json address to load the plugin manifest. Make sure your browser trusts the local certificate on the latter, to be able to use it e.g. with https://editor.flotiq.com

URL

Hint: You can use localhost url from development mode https://localhost:3053/index.js

1. Open Flotiq editor
2. Open Chrome Dev console
3. Execute the following script

   FlotiqPlugins.loadPlugin('plugin-id', '<URL TO COMPILED JS>')

4. Navigate to the view that is modified by the plugin

Directly

1. Open Flotiq editor
2. Open Chrome Dev console
3. Paste the content of dist/index.js
4. Navigate to the view that is modified by the plugin

Deployment

Hint: You can use localhost url from development mode https://localhost:3053/plugin-manifest.json

1. Open Flotiq editor
2. Add a new plugin and paste the URL to the hosted plugin-manifest.json file
3. Navigate to the view that is modified by the plugin