# Kibana plugin development setup

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development-setup/124936>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 21, 2018, 8:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development-setup/124936 "2018-03-21T08:47:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![zhDmitry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zhdmitry/32/29036_2.png) [@zhDmitry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zhDmitry)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 8:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development-setup/124936/1 "2018-03-21T08:47:31Z")

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Hi, i want to develop some kibana plugin but i don't know how to setup environment correctly.  
I want to get automatic components linking using kbn bootstrap and live reload on changes.  
I found if i place code of my plugin in "plugins folder" i will have live reload but if put my plugin in kibana-extra i won't get any change detection. What i supposed to do ? I want to end up with the following structure

```auto
kibana/...
my-plugin-name/

```

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**Author:** ![chrisronline](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrisronline/32/28230_2.png) [@chrisronline](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chrisronline)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development-setup/124936/3 "2018-03-23T13:59:53Z")

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Hi @zhDmitry,

How are you accomplishing the `live reload`? Is that something you added in your plugin itself?

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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:** [April 20, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-development-setup/124936/4 "2018-04-20T14:00:17Z")

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