# Writing Kibana plugin without xpack, is it possible?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/writing-kibana-plugin-without-xpack-is-it-possible/166455>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 31, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/writing-kibana-plugin-without-xpack-is-it-possible/166455 "2019-01-31T01:36:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![simon17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@simon17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simon17)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/writing-kibana-plugin-without-xpack-is-it-possible/166455/1 "2019-01-31T01:36:09Z")

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I want to develop some kibana plugin for testing. My target elasticsearch is the oss version (without xpack).

When I follow the instruction on kbn-plugin-generator([https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/v6.6.0/packages/kbn-plugin-generator](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/v6.6.0/packages/kbn-plugin-generator)), it did generated a plugin. But when I start it, it loaded a kibana with xpack which is not compatible with the elasticsearch-oss version.

Is there a way to load Kibana without xpack from Github repo?

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**Author:** ![simon17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@simon17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simon17)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/writing-kibana-plugin-without-xpack-is-it-possible/166455/2 "2019-01-31T03:26:29Z")

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OH solved with yarn start --oss !

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/writing-kibana-plugin-without-xpack-is-it-possible/166455/3 "2019-01-31T20:22:54Z")

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Sorry about the confusion there. In case it's useful for anyone else landing here, that part is covered in the contributing guide here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#running-kibana-in-open-source-mode](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#running-kibana-in-open-source-mode)

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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:** [February 28, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/writing-kibana-plugin-without-xpack-is-it-possible/166455/4 "2019-02-28T20:23:00Z")

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