Like the title says, I would like to know how to get started with developing a plugin on my own. It would be great if people who have made a plugin, share their workflows so that newbies like me can walk in their footsteps :slight_smile:

FAQ [image] Plugins mini FAQ Basement How to install plugins? Installation instructions for 0.9.8+ If the author has registered their plugins with the Obsidian devs, you can find the plugins in Settings > Third-party plugin > Community plugins. Note that the …

I added a small section about this at the bottom: [image] Plugins mini FAQ I want to develop a plugin, where do I start? Prerequisites: Javascript, Typescript, npm, git knowledge as far as I can tell Where is the API? GitHub - obsidianmd/obsidian-api: Type definitions for the latest Obsidian AP…

+1 for sharing the workflow, especially what happens after npm run dev: Do you manually copy over your files to VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/your-plugin-id/ when you’ve made a change? Do you re-load your local Obsidian to see changes? etc.

I don’t think Typescript knowledge (or use) is really necessary to write Obsidian plugins. You can just write plain Javascript using ES2018 features (such as classes, generators, and async functions), which are available in most browsers as well as Electron. If you code directly in JS and CSS in a…

this response is so helpful. thanks a lot

@zephraph put together some tools for programmatically working with plugins . There’s also an unofficial collection of CLI tools that helps you build plugins for Obsidian. Apparently it’ll prompt you for which vault you want to develop in (via a select list; it finds all your vaults), sets up and a…

[image] Plugins mini FAQ Basement I tried to make a as-simple-as-possible-but-no-simpler set of instructions for getting started with plugins. (The idea here is to give you everything you need to be able to do things with plugin development, and nothing more than that.) A…

How to get started with developing a custom Plugin?

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rigmarole November 5, 2020, 1:52pm 3

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