[nodebb-plugin-finder] The plugin that finds and manages other plugins (Deprecated)

Bri

aka "the One Plugin"
In the interest of making available plugins easier to find and install, I made a plugin that will do just that!
Now:

*Some console typing required

Just:
npm install nodebb-plugin-finder

(maybe even for the last time!)

Github

History:
v. up to 0.0.4: works with nodebb v. 0.3.x
0.0.5: Compatibility with NodeBB v. 0.4.1

UPDATE: this plugin is now deprecated, as the functionality has been implemented in the core product. It will still be available on github and npm for functionality up to (but not including) NodeBB v. 0.4.3

Schamper

Oooooh nice!

finid

@BDHarrington7,

You win, bro!

julian

Aahhahaa, awesome! And we wanted to build this in core...

Ted

Yep. Really great. Maybe themes could be included as well?

julian

I believe you can use npm outdated to find which plugins are outdated...

psychobunny

hahaha awesome. Maybe this should just be bundled along with core (or maybe even just part of the core). Looks like you won next week's contest already (plus you'll have 7 whole days worth of upvoting...)

frissdiegurke

Great Tool

Bri

I would be honored if this became part of core. Of course it's a little rough, and some of the remnants of construction are still there, so this is not completely done yet but the basic functionality is there! Hat's off to @Mr_Waffle for writing that sockets guide too, that helped things along for me nicely.

@tedr56 that's on the todo list, it shouldn't be too hard to add that

Bri

This has been updated to version 0.0.2 to address the duplicates issue

bentael

@bdharrington7 my life is complete

Bri

I updated this once more, I was getting an error when trying to update, but there was a bug in my package.json file, so to update, you might have to uninstall and then reinstall, current version is 0.0.3

Bri

Update to 0.0.4, added option to specify auto-update, and made the interface a little more user-friendly

a_5mith

Think this has been broken since the jump to 0.4.0, plugin page 404s.

julian

@a_5mith Might actually be superceded by the plugin manager that @psychobunny is working on

a_5mith

@julian I think I could live with that. Sounds good!

miksago

I'm pretty sure you can do require('npm') and then execute things like installs and uninstalls, which may be way nicer than shelling out to the npm process.

julian

Yup. I think it's not directly supported like the cli tools are, however, though they do use the same underlying codebase, probably.

Ben Wang

This post is deleted!

finid

@Ben-Wang

It's bad form to hijack a thread for an unrelated issue. What you want to do is, start another discussion in this category. State in as much detail as you can what the problem is and one or more people should be able to help you get NodeBB running properly. Remember to state what OS you are running and what Web server and the version of the Web server, too.