joplin-plugin-cli

Introduction

A cli for joplin plugins, supports creating and packaging plugins, uses esbuild for the core, it's very fast.

Use

npm i -g joplin-plugin-cli ## install
jpl generate --name test-plugin # Generate the project
cd test-plugin
yarn build # build

FAQ

Motivation

Why not use the official plugin template project?

The front-end packaging tools have changed a lot lately, mainly due to the performance revolution caused by esbuild and swc (that's not an overstatement). vue authors abandoned webpack and built a new cross-framework tool called vite based on esbuild and rollup, so I also prefer to build faster tools based on esbuild.

The official plugin template project takes about 3.87s to build using webpack, while this cli takes only 0.17s based on esbuild.

How to migrate existing plugins?

1. install dependencies

   yarn add -D joplin-plugin-api joplin-plugin-cli

2. Remove the dist/prepare/update command from package.json and add the dev/build command

   {
     "scripts": {
       "build": "jpl build",
       "dev": "jpl build -w"
     }
   }

3. Run the build command

   yarn build

4. replace all import joplin from 'api' with import joplin from 'joplin-plugin-api' in the code

5. Delete the api directory, webpack.config.js

Reference

• Performance comparison of packaging tools
• vscode officially recommends using esbuild packaging plugin