Kibana plugin generator

[omerf (Omer)]

I downloaded kibana for development, and using yarn and the - node scripts/generate_plugin my_plugin_name
I made a plugin. The files are creates as index.ts and not .js. Is there a way to change to react and not typescript in the generation? also if I want to add a plugin from zip, how is this done in the dev kibana?

[majagrubic (Maja)]

Hi, Kibana is moving to be fully typescript. In line with that, all newly generated files are using typescript. You can add the plugin from zip file by running
bin/kibana-plugin install file:///local/path/to/custom_plugin.zip

[omerf (Omer)]

And is there any documentation and examples of plugins in typescript, I can only find in React and nearly no documentation?

[majagrubic (Maja)]

You can have a look at some of our sample plugins, I believe most of them should be written using typescript.

[omerf (Omer)]

I want to use the dropdown field like the search example plugin, to display the indexes that exist in kibana.

When I add the Index Pattern select const (last line of the picture), the kibana plugin loads with an empty page. I would love to see examples on how to develop this.

[majagrubic (Maja)]

At the first glance, the code looks correct. Is data.ui initialized properly? Have you added data as a dependency to the json file of your plugin?

elastic/kibana/blob/7.9/examples/state_containers_examples/kibana.json#L7

[omerf (Omer)]

@majagrubic

"requiredBundles": ["kibanaUtils", "kibanaReact"]

Data is added in the kibana.json, and used. You can see it in the const export a few lines above. Are there examples of using the select index pattern fields? or other ways

[Pierre_Gayvallet]

Would you mind opening the debugger / dev tools in your browser and sharing the error you see when trying to access your app?

[omerf (Omer)]

When using the const line, the console looks fine with no errors:

but the browser opens with a blank page:

[omerf (Omer)]

The problem was that under the application.tsx file, I didn't import the data object.
Thanks all!

[omerf (Omer)]

I have the plugin working on the dev and version 7.9.3. As I said above, I am using the data plugin included in src/plugins/ data. When Installing the plugin on the version we use, 7.0.1, it is succesfully installing, but not displaying on the sidebar or through the link. I can see that there is no data src included in this version, is this the problem?

If so, what alternatives can I use?

[ssasporta (Sharon Sasporta)]

Hi, What if we develop a plugin for a previous Kibana version (7.0.1)
Do we have any limitation for doing it because of the Kibana generator?

[majagrubic (Maja)]

The generator is here to help with things. You can still develop a plugin, but beware the architecture has changed a lot in between 7.0.1 -> 7.10.0 versions.