Codimd: hackmd plug-ins

[oceatoon]

Hi
we massively love HackMD
we are developpers and have imagined upgrading HackMD with a layer connecting to an external API that could pull information from an external DB , with autocompletion or execute processes
2 ex :

• referencing someone : @someone would list all the people from the external DB and add a link to our plateform inside the pad
• +@Pixies + : launch a create Organization API with
  what would be the best way to do something like this ?
  is there a pluggin system ?

[SISheogorath]

No, there is currently no plugin system. Currently all changes need to be made within the code base.

Feel free to contribute :) We try to review everything as soon as possible.

[oceatoon]

Hi thanks for the quick answer
can someone just point me into the one file that handles the edit typing,
or where I could add text exception like
if(typed starts with @xxx) then launch a small autocomplete proposal list
thanks

[jackycute]

Hi @oceatoon
Please take a look at https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd/blob/master/public/js/index.js#L3198

[SISheogorath]

@oceatoon Any progress on this? Otherwise I would like to close it.

[pirate]

@oceatoon It's not an "official solution", but you can hack together some basic plugin-style behavior using the codimd-cli: https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd-cli to do importing and exporting.