Plugin management

The UXP Developer Tool allows you to create plugins from templates or add existing ones to your developer workspace

The UDT allows you to scaffold and import existing plugins into its workspace. You can decide to load them in the host application or keep them listed for future use.

Create a new plugin

As we've seen in the Getting Started guide, you can create a new plugin from one of the available template provided by UDT by clicking the Create Plugin button. Please refer to this section for more details.

UDT - Create Plugin

Add an existing plugin

If you already have a plugin project on your disk, you can add it to your workspace by clicking the Add Plugin button and point the file picker to the manifest.json file of your plugin.

UDT - Create Plugin

Click the Open button to add the plugin to your workspace.

UDT - Plugin Added

Removing a plugin

If you're building a lot of plugins, you may find that the workspace may be getting cluttered. You can remove a plugin from the workspace by checking the plugin's associated checkbox and clicking Remove Selected (in the upper-right corner).

UDT - Remove Plugin

Once you have at least one plugin added to your workspace, let's look at the recommended plugin development workflow.

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