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Find a host app and a plugin point you want to write a plugin for. Plugin points are bridges to custom behavior in apps you love. Imagine the value you can bring to users of the host app or users of yours that also use the host app.

Explore hosts and plugin points

We generate and scaffold a git repo for you with pre-made test cases with common plugin props for the plugin point you chose and a dev workflow that consists of just about this: `npm run dev`.  
  
You'll be able to play with a pre-made storybook for any components the host exposes.  
  
We host your static assets and can store user data on your behalf.

Clone your repo

You write a regular react component. We handle the deployment, payments, security and overhead of isolating host and plugin code.  
  
You are free to focus on the one thing you do best: write a freaking awesome plugin that delights users.  
  
When you're done, `git push`. We generate screenshots and take care of getting your plugin live.

Write a regular react component

Authors create plugins for plugin points exposed by hosts. Host users can pay for plugins and enterprise customers can enable plugins across their usersbase.

Plugin authors power incredible, custom experiences

For Authors

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Plugins.dev brings the integration and customization benefits of an API right to your users' fingertips. Anything we didn't cover? <a href="mailto:adam@plugins.dev">Email us!</a>

Frequently asked questions

Plugins.dev brings the integration and customization benefits of an API right to your users' fingertips.

Take your company from app to platform. Simply, securely, professionally.


Users invest in creating content on your app. With plugins.dev you can give them an ecosystem of 3rd-party plugins that customize their experience on and drive value for your product.


Your app’s secure, revenue-generating plugin ecosystem

Launch an app store for your product in 15 minutes.

Empower enterprise clients to effortlessly integrate with and customize your product

Enable seamless partnerships to bring compounding value to shared customers

When your app is a platform for creation or central to your clients' workflow, your work is never done. Plugins.dev frees your users to invest in customizing your platform, creating a stickier, more loyal fanbase.

What we do

Generate a JWT server-side with your plugins.dev secret so we know which plugins to enable for which users.  
  
We have plugins for just about every deployment solution to turn this 100 keystroke job into a one-click job :)

Link your users

You add a React component wherever you want a plugin point. Expose any components and pass any props you want. We ensure plugins are safely isolated and secure.  
  
Users and plugin authors can now extend your app's functionality to integrate with other services and deepen their reliance on your product and its newfound ecosystem.

Add a plugin point

Direct users to your custom plugin marketplace and start making money as your users purchase plugins and an ecosystem flourishes around your product.  
  
We both drive plugin authors to create plugins for your users. Their developer experience will be simply magical.

Profit

You can create a plugin point in your app in 15 minutes, making your app a plugin host and allowing plugin authors to create content for your users. Check out how nice your author experience will be <a href="/authors">here</a>.

How it works

Think the host experience looks great? Check out the fantastic developer experience plugin authors will have [here](/authors).

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**API**: **A**PIs **P**ermit **I**ntermediation  

The API revolution has brought enormous value to end users. Every company can focus on the mechanisms by which they can uniquely create value.  

The problem: APIs are only one piece of the puzzle.  

* When products have shared users who would benefit from integration, APIs help but only enable invisible, backend integration. Often, users deserve and prefer UI-based integrations.
* When enterprise customers need to customize a product to integrate into their workflows, APIs are almost perfect but require an enterprise to invest in costly internal tools as wrapper UIs. Direct, UI plugins reduce costs by orders of magnitude.
* End users and extension authors need to provision servers, monitor long-running processes, and build UIs to customize their interaction with a service that provides an API. Plugins enable seamless integration.  

In short: APIs drive users out of your app. Plugins keep users **in** your app.

APIs are not enough

When users invest in creating content on your app, they are bringing a neverending stream of novelty to your platform. Can you really pre-state all of the forms of content a user might imagine? Instead of leaving users perrenially underserved as they push out the boundaries of what's possible, plugins enable an ecosystem to spring up around your platform, enabling truly endless customization.  

Users who co-create their experience with a platform are significantly stickier and more loyal. Turn users into fans and advocates.

Users who create content on your app can't be satisfied

Enterprise clients have exacting requirements. If your product doesn't seamlessly fit into their existing workflows and the suite of tooling that they've already invested significantly in, you may quickly find your solution neglected. API integrations only help if your UI doesn't need to be extended or if you're willing to commit to a lifetime of custom UI work for each client. With plugins.dev, you can enable enterprise clients to write simple plugins to embed your app deep into their existing workflows or to integrate their processes deeply into your app. Best of all, unlike with APIs where most beneficiaries of your app won't ever know they're using it, plugins place your app and your brand front and center.