Plugins

Create a Plugin

Plugins are Julia packages, so it's straight forward:

] generate MyPlugin

They need to have a dictionary containing its config:

const config = Dict(
    "name" => "MyPlugin",
    "js_path" => joinpath("static", "main.js")
)

• name is your Plugins name.
• js_path points to the JS file that should get loaded from PlutoBoard. Adding more JS files can be done by just importing them in the main JS file.

import {func} from './file.js'

Loading a plugin

Now, to load the Plugin, it needs to be imported in the developer package, preferably in Main.jl:

using MyPlugin

PlutoBoard.load_plugin(MyPlugin)

Now, the Plugin gets loaded at the start of the notebook.

Using Plugins, it's possible to easily share functionalities bundled together instead of sending several code snippets. Development only functionalities, like a small GUI for testing the notebook could also be bundled into a plugin to remove it easily in production.

Internal functions

load_plugin(package::Module) -> nothing