5 hands-on use cases for the upcoming plugin system

[Elena_Alcalde_Rueda]

Anything a user can do should also be replicable by a plugin.

@alotor shared great news during the Penpot 2.0 Live: a plugin environment will be available for everyone to create their own plugins.

To see it in action, replay the demo!

He demonstrated the plugin system potential with 5 examples and the plugins manager:

1. New plugin manager: It will help you find the available plugins and simple installation of new ones via a URL link.

2. Contrast plugin: It allows you to compare two colors, calculate the contrast ratio, and assess their compliance with accessibility standards.

3. Lorem Ipsum placeholder data: It enables automatic insertion of a precise amount of text while preserving the style.

4. Icon Library: We’ve incorporated Penpot with the Feather open-source library, making it super easy to place icons in your prototypes.

5. Table Creator: This plugin uses the recently released CSS Grid Layout for effortless table creation, along with the ability to import CSV. @alotor showcased his top Pokémon as an exmple of table creation.

6. Color Palette Library: Each color stored in your local library will be read and displayed in a CSS Grid Layout.

A beta testing session will be opened very soon to members of the Penpot Community.

Stay tuned!

[iancu]

So many questions, but:
Will you attempt to enforce an open source rule to the plugins?

[marcelo_angelim]

I sincerely hope the developers have the option to charge for their plugins if they want. That way the adoption will be more fast.

As a graphic designer myself, I miss features like in app mockup plugins.

[iancu]

I wonder, what would be the best pricing model for the plugins, in your opinion?

[gabriel]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the great work and presentation @alotor. I enjoyed quite a lot.

I have been looking around and found this repo, can you send the repositories of the example plugins you showed?

The API reference is valuable resource but a bit raw, I thin it would be supper useful to have a tutorial on how to create a plugin that makes use of the API.
I can think of many people benefiting from this.

@Elena_Alcalde_Rueda is there any list for collecting possible ideas for plugins?
Would love to see a plugin that imports a design token file (json) and it automagically “paints” it into penpot, showing the color gradients, typography scales, raii, etc.
I think this would be a great way to adopt Penpot and empower devs and designers team collaboration.

[Elena_Alcalde_Rueda]

Hey @iancu Not likely.

[Elena_Alcalde_Rueda]

Hi @marcelo_angelim ! The plugins will operate on your server, giving you the freedom to charge if you wish. But we won’t integrate any payment methods directly into Penpot.

[Elena_Alcalde_Rueda]

Hi @gabriel! We’ll share the repos as soon as they are available.
There’s not an “official” plugins ideas list yet, but you’ve just created it right here!

[myfunnyandy]

The plugins system is already well advanced and we are looking for beta testers

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