How to Build a Plugin System with TypeScript

Otterlord
JavaScript in Plain English
4 min readSep 10, 2022

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If you’re building a minimalist application, one of the ways you can allow people to extend your app is by using plugins. Plugins are generally small packages of code that use exposed APIs or libraries to modify and add features to an app. Generally loaded at runtime, they make an app much more flexible.

In this tutorial, we’ll create a simple type-safe plugin system that can be used in…

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