Plugin

If you want to add features to a service, you will need to register a plugin, which will be in the form of a standard Fastify plugin.

The config file will specify where the plugin file is located as the example below:

{
  ...
  "plugins": {
    "paths": ["./plugin/index.js"]
  }
}

The path is relative to the config file path.

Since it uses fastify-sandbox under the hood, all other options of that package may be specified under the plugin property.

You should export an async function which receives a parameters

• app (FastifyInstance) that is the main fastify instance
• opts all the options specified in the config file after path

Hot Reload

Plugin file is being watched by fs.watch function.

You don't need to reload Platformatic Service server while working on your plugin. Every time you save, the watcher will trigger a reload event and the server will auto-restart and load your updated code.

tip

At this time, on Linux, file watch in subdirectories is not supported due to a Node.js limitation (documented here).

Directories

The path can also be a directory. In that case, the directory will be loaded with @fastify/autoload.

Consider the following directory structure:

├── routes
│   ├── foo
│   │   ├── something.js
│   │   └── bar
│   │       └── baz.js
│   ├── single-plugin
│   │   └── utils.js
│   └── another-plugin.js
└── platformatic.service.json

By default the folder will be added as a prefix to all the routes defined within them. See the autoload documentation for all the options to customize this behavior.

Multiple plugins

Multiple plugins can be loaded in parallel by specifying an array:

{
  ...
  "plugins": {
    "paths": [{
      "path": "./plugin/index.js"
    }, {
      "path": "./routes/"
    }]
  }
}