Extension Marketplace #2820
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Absolutely! We're working on making all Directus extensions installable as files "over the wire". The plan is to have an external marketplace for browsing extensions, as well as an in-app experience for adding interfaces, etc on the fly. These extensions would first be created by our Core team (for quality/testing reasons), and then we would open it up to external developers — ideally with a profit-share model. I've included an initial mockup of what the in-app marketplace might look like:
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Will there be a boilerplate for the creation of extensions? |
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Yes, but examples of each Extension Type are already available in the Docs... https://docs.directus.io/guides/displays/ |
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Some news about marketplace? I'm developing some interfaces that could be useful for another projects. I would like to share them with the community. |
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This is HUGE ❤️ |
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I'm really anxious waiting for this marketplace. |
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Hi! |
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Yes, see https://docs.directus.io/extensions/introduction.html |
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thanks |
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I have been trying to create Import CSV button with functionality based on the Extension docs and could not. I looked into the core repo and it has a different structure. Is there more detailed tutorial how to create custom interfaces? Or to include 3-d party vue npms? |
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I would recommend a model like that of drupal which is that the community develops and maintains the extensions/plugins/modules . A paid model like wordpress will promote no-collaboration multiple solutions for the same issue kinda ecosystem. This dilutes the quality and promotes a anti democratic system. |
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Yeah and what if the 1 available solution not fits your usecase and/or budget? A kind of a rating system and stats how many times an extension is used can also help to filter for the better solutions. But I think nobody will stop devs to team up for maintaining some extensions. |
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I disagree! Having multiple versions that solve the same problem drives competition and makes the whole ecosystem better because of it 🙂 |
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How about we agree that 20 teams of 5 devs might be a good balance? 😄 Life is always about balance... |
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Haha deal! 🤝 |
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@benhaynes I saw you created https://directus.market/, but it only says coming soon and track progess. So, any progress/updates you can share? |
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See my response from yesterday... #2820 (reply in thread) |
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@benhaynes Hey Ben Thanks for all the hard work. I have been pushing Directus hard for a new company project & am so excited to use it. My team was blown away. I was wondering if there is a way to create custom extensions for cloud users, standard, community, & enterprise ? It appears we need to self serve which is fine, but I would love to pay for it to support all the hard work. |
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@mcqua007 — thank you!! Yes, Enterprise supports custom extensions, and we have Cloud, On-Prem, and Hybrid deployment options available in this tier too. Happy to answer any questions about that side of things, or you can shoot our Enterprise Team a message via our website. ❤️ |
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@benhaynes I think I reached out regarding enterprise and pricing but have not heard back. for enterprise do you get ssh access to the server or how does that work ? BTW I have been a huge advocate for Directus for years! My boss wanted to go with Contentful and I was like NO we gotta use Directus. It is leagues above and the team behind it is amazing! (Just wanted you to know how thankful the community is!) |
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@mcqua007 — I've reached out to our team to ensure you get a response. 🙌 |
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So i want to be active in the marketplace and have a few questions:
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All of this is still being figured out internally, but I've described our current intentions. If anyone else on our team has additional insight, that'd be great... but I want to be clear that anything can change before GA. |
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Alright. |
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Will extensions be able to be installed locally and committed to code and then deployed as part of a CI/CD pipeline? Or is the idea that all extensions install directly on the hosted instance? |
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Either of those approaches will work @u12206050. The first approach would rely on the extensions folder for "local" committed code, the second approach can be done by relying on |
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Hello, I'm going to make a suggestion to create a countdown, to calm our anxiety for this store. A simple countdown on https://directus.market/ would give directus fans a big thumbs up. Kind regards, Hermes Souza |
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But isn't it, that they said so many times already, they don't want to give time estimates? Because its just tooo easy to delay and then would make customers angry for them not fulfilling their promises? |
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That was two years ago, now it's another scenario and this can be revisited. Two years is a long time to not have answers. Two years. |
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The update is that extension DX and the marketplace are the next big focus of our Engineering team. No concrete timing, but we're diving in in a few weeks, and then will give more updates and sneak peeks over time. Hopefully, we have something out in 6 months.... but timelines slip based on other priorities, which is why we don't try to predict them. 🙂 |
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Thanks for responding. |
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An hint for those waiting for the market: there are three ways to find extensions (that I am aware of).
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I have a question about the licensing model... Currently, due to the Directus GPL3 license, all marketplace plugins should also make the source code available open source. Does that fit with a marketplace? Thanks. |
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See #17218 and lets discuss there 🙂 |
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Heya! Thanks for opening this feature request! This feature request has received over 15 votes from the community. This means we'll move this feature request to the Under Review state! The Core team will schedule a meeting to review this request as soon as possible. The discussion will then be approved or denied. You may or may not be invited to join this meeting with the core team. For more information, see our Feature Request Process. |
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Question for anyone. Was just talking about this while writing my guest blog and wondering how this will be persisted to new containers? Is the extension installed during bootstrap? |
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@BlackDahlia313 Extensions are downloaded to the extensions folder and each container will read it from that volume so they're in sync 🙂 |
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Oh and we'll add in support to have these extensions saved to a storage adapter in case you want to use S3 instead of a volume #19803 |
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Mic Drop. That answered everything. Very exciting stuff here! And Thanks @kevincam3 got a keen eye :) |
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@BlackDahlia313 & @paescuj Thanks for the love. I'm setting up our infrastructure to use Docker containers in production so the plan is any extensions from the Market we'll install and test them in a dev environment and them add them into the docker image before we deploy to production. I hope there's not something I'm missing here that could cause a problem but I'd like to keep my docker image repeatable. But if someone can predict a problem by all means let me know. I'm still a newbie when it comes to docker containers in production. |
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@kevincam3 using a persistent volume or any external storage will keep each image repeatable as the extensions are loaded in this way for each new container that comes online. Its really clever and should make it pretty service agnostic. You should be all set :) |
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Hey there, any idea how to access this marketplace and extensions with the Railway-Deployment? |
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😮 See, what just hit my inbox. It's happening! ❤️
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High res preview (via) PS: In case you wanna join the keynote presentation, here you go: https://lu.ma/leapweek |
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Hi there, are there any plans for a market/store for extensions? If done correctly, it would help the product grow a lot, as popular extensions would be easily accessible for any running instance.
Right now one has to manually install it in the hosting environment.
Just an idea :)
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