Developing Plugins

Plugins are the supported way to add visible tools, background actions, external services and complete workflows.

Begin with Building Your First AstronomicAL Plugin, then read the plugin contract and the sections relevant to the contribution type being developed.

• Building Your First AstronomicAL Plugin
• Plugin API
• Plugin Package Structure
• Plugin Manifests
• Plugin API
• Application Context
• Creating Panels
• Dataset Programming
• Actions and DataFrame Actions
• Workflow Plugins
• Using Events
• Using Background Jobs
• Creating Artifacts
• Creating Services
• Declaring Semantic Mappings
• Plugin Persistence
• Packaging and Distributing Plugins