# Kibana plug-in or standalone web app

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plug-in-or-standalone-web-app/133672>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 29, 2018, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plug-in-or-standalone-web-app/133672 "2018-05-29T12:09:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![paulkeogh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@paulkeogh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paulkeogh)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plug-in-or-standalone-web-app/133672/1 "2018-05-29T12:09:31Z")

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I have a requirement for a simple web app - basically display a table of data (from elastic) with actionable buttons associated with each row.

My users would prefer this function as a Kibana plug-in for ease of use reasons, but I have looked at the Kibana plugin docs etc and I don't get a warm feeling - I think I might be much better off to do a simple standalone Angular 6 based web app style solution.

Any thoughts ?

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plug-in-or-standalone-web-app/133672/2 "2018-05-29T22:36:38Z")

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Our plugin spec is still experimental and will experience change until it has stabilized. At that time, we will have more documentation finalized. A standalone app would be more stable. You can utilize the ES aggregations and use a JS framework like Flot to create the visualizations. Otherwise, you will need to publish a new version of your plugin when you want to update Kibana and follow the change which affect the plugin interfaces.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plug-in-or-standalone-web-app/133672/3 "2018-06-26T22:36:41Z")

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