Plugin Architecture

Kind: style

Layer: Extensibility Core

Record: architecture:plugin-architecture

Severity: contextual

Scope: component, runtime, system

Canonical: Ontology

A convention of building a small core that discovers and loads plugins through declared extension points.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Batch-vs-Stream and before Extension Points.

Requires

• Extension Points
• Stable Interfaces
• Discovery

Reinforces

• Open/Closed Principle (OCP)
• Modularity

Enables

• Runtime Extensibility

Conflicts with

• Hardcoded Extensions

In tension with

• Static Analysis
• Security

Tensions

• Plugin Architecture / Static Analysis
• Plugin Architecture / Security

Violated by

• Hardcoded Extensions

Refactored by

• Extension Points
• Registry Pattern

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Plugin / Extensibility / IoC

Enabled by

• Runtime Discovery
• Composability
• Replaceability
• Self-Describing Architecture

Linked from

• The filesystem is the architecture
• Principles are typed
• Runtime Discovery / Dynamic Binding
• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Core Modular Design
• SOLID / Object-Oriented Design
• Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
• Plugin / Extensibility / IoC
• Core Vocabulary
• Plugin / Extensibility / IoC
• Quality Attributes
• Severity levels
• The resolutions

in this codebase

• registerPage
• presentation/records
• presentation/records/records.barrel.ts