Move installed plugins from development to production environment

[epidemiya30]

Hello!

What is the most proper way to move developed plugins from development to production environment?

[Bri]

Publish to npm

[epidemiya30]

Thank you for response!)

But what if my plugin is very project relative and shouldn't be publicly published?
I was thinking about to exclude plugin folder in .gitignore...

Also is there any special tool for exporting NodeBB settings? Or I should do just regular mongodb dump?

[Bri]

If it's a private plugin, you can just copy the plugin folder into your node_modules folder under NodeBB, but the plugin folder has to be named like nodebb-plugin-*

There's also the option of using a private npm repo, but there's not an option to choose repos in the core NodeBB system right now

[epidemiya30]

I think I'll go the way of placing plugin into node_modules folder, excluding it from .gitignore and committing it.

Thank you again!

[Bri]

You won't need to put it in the .gitignore as the node_modules folder should already be excluded

[epidemiya30]

I mean exclude from excluding the plugin folder