Development

There are some quality of life tips, that can be used when developing a plugin.

Playground Development (Frontend Development)

When developing your frontend, it is tedious, to always wait for spacialist to reload the application, therefore you should use an offline playground that mocks application data and you can develop the frontend application with vite's hot reloading.

A playground environment is already included in the plugin template repository and should be made available as separate package in the future.

Symlinking Script Files

When testing directly in your Spacialist development environment and make changes to your script files, the application would require to re-publish the script everytime it is built, which can be done by reinstalling the plugin. If your plugin is stored at it's correct location inside spacialist (App/Plugins/PluginName) then you can symlink the script file directly to the script directory (storage/app/private/plugins/pluginname_uuid.js). So the compiled script will be loaded on reload. Reinstalling the plugin will respect the symlink and won't overwrite it with a static file.