How to start creating maskbook plugins?

[kecrily]

I'm tring to create a maskbook plugin. But I ran into some problems.

After executing pnpm install and pnpm start, I copied the folder in packages/plugins/example/src into packages/maskbook/src/plugins and change the information in base.ts.

Following the documentation guidelines in the docs directory, I loaded the generated dist directory in Chrome. However, I opened the Dashboard and did not find the plugin that corresponds to my modified information.

Some other information that may be useful:

• Node: 16.4.2
• pnpm: 6.10.2
• Chrome: 91.0.4472.164 (x64)
• Windows: 11 22000.71 (x64)
• clone version: 0c90cfe

[septs]

https://github.com/DimensionDev/Maskbook/blob/develop/docs/plugin-development-guide.md

[kecrily]

You may not have read what I posted carefully, I did mention that I had read the documentation.

[Jack-Works]

Did you registered your new plugin? It won't be automatically loaded. A "import '....'" to your index.ts is necessary.

[kecrily]

Thank you for the reminder. But that's not the reason for my problem, the registerPluginis included in the code of example.

I found that I also need to register in plugin-infra/registy.ts

[kecrily]

If you have the same problem as me, go to packages\maskbook\src\plugin-infra\register.ts and import your plugin.

And

// If your plugin also works in isolated dashboard, please also register it in
// packages/dashboard/src/initialization/plugins.ts

[Jack-Works]

Improved docs at #3715. Thanks.