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Albert Mulia Shintra
Albert Mulia Shintra

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What is your thought process to develop the extendable application?

Hi devs!

I have a project that requires collaborative effort to build the application. The project codebase foundation should allow external developer to develop features without having to modify the foundation codebase.

A reference for similar application that provide such extension is like VSCode Editor, Canva, Figma, or even Browser Extension. Please kindly share other apps that you think is similar as well.

I appreciate any sharing or advice from your thought process to build this kind of application properly. Please leave me any feedback or questions if you need more detail. Thank you!

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Benjioe • Edited

What's the impact if a new release of your application create bug in an external developper's plugin ? How serious is it for your business ?

Is your software a SAAS ?

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Albert Mulia Shintra

Hi @benjioe , thanks for the question!

It'll be serious when there's bug between release. I believe we can minimize it by having proper unit test for the extendable API and the plugins.

Yes, the software is a SAAS which any release may impact user publicly.

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Benjioe

So do you need an open API like forem ones or somethings like a cloud marketplace (azure marketplace)