26 docs tagged with "plugins development"

Create and register hooks in Strapi plugins to let other plugins add personalized behavior to your application.

Extend and customize the Strapi admin panel by injecting React components into predefined or custom injection zones.

Provide translations for your Strapi plugin's admin panel interface using registerTrads and react-intl.

Add menu links, create settings sections, and configure settings links for your Strapi plugin in the admin panel.

Overview of the Admin Panel API for Strapi plugins, with entry file, lifecycle hooks, and available actions for customizing the admin panel UI.

The Content Manager APIs reference lists the APIs available to plugins for adding actions and options to the Content Manager List view and Edit view.

Generation introduction about Strapi plugins development

Learn how to migrate your Strapi plugins and applications to not use the `helper-plugin` package.

In Strapi 5, the `helper-plugin` is removed. A whole migration reference is available for plugin developers, and codemods will automatically handle some changes.

Learn how to store and access data from a Strapi plugin

In Strapi 5, the lockIcon property is replaced by licenseOnly, which affects how the addMenuLink(), addSettingsLink(), and addSettingsLinks() methods from the Admin Panel API work.

Learn how to use the Plugin SDK to build and publish a Strapi plugin

Reference documentation for Strapi's Plugin SDK commands

Learn more about the structure of a Strapi plugin

Existing plugins can be overriden by placing code in /src/extensions or using global register/bootstrap hooks. Instructions in this documentation cover reshaping plugin content-type schemas or server logic — altough upstream updates may break extensions.

The present page is intended to be used as a short summary of everything to consider if you are a plugin developer upgrading your plugin from Strapi v4 to Strapi 5. The page quickly describes the changes affecting plugins and links to additional resources where necessary.

Add custom reducers, read state, dispatch actions, and subscribe to changes in Strapi's admin panel Redux store from your plugin.

Overview of the Strapi Server API for plugins, with entry file, lifecycle hooks, routes, controllers, services, policies, middlewares, and configuration.

Define default plugin options, validate user-provided values, and read plugin configuration at runtime.

Declare and register content-types in a Strapi plugin and access them at runtime through the Document Service API.

Handle HTTP requests in plugin controllers and organize reusable business logic in plugin services.

Access and reuse plugin controllers, services, policies, and other server resources using top-level and global getters.

Control when plugin server logic runs with register, bootstrap, and destroy lifecycle hooks.

Guard plugin routes with policies and intercept requests with middlewares in the Strapi plugin Server API.

Expose plugin endpoints as Content API or admin routes, with full control over auth, policies, and route configuration.

Learn more about TypeScript usage with Strapi 5