Create Repository

The creation of plugin repositories is rather simple, start by creating a git repository, on GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket...

Here is the architecture of a plugin repository:

Repository/
├── plugins/
│   ├── some.json
│   ├── another.json
│   └── ...
├── manifest.json
└── plugins.json

The file manifest.json

This file contains various information about the plugin repository, here is an example (the one used by the official repository):

{
  "id": "rtop",
  "name": "Rtop Repository",
  "description": "The official repository for RTop plugins.",
  "url": "https://github.com/RtopRS/PluginsRepository/",
  "fallback_url": "https://gitlab.com/rtoprs/PluginsRepository/"
}

Usefulness of each element:

• id → This is the ID of your repository, it will be used when a user wants to retrieve information about your repository.
• name → This is the name of your repository, it will be displayed when updating plugins/repositories for example.
• description → This is a short description of your repository.
• url → This is the URL of your repository.
• fallback_url → This is a backup URL in case GitHub goes down for example, currently this parameter is simply ignored.

The file plugins.json

This file contains the list of plugin IDs present in the repository.

{
  "plugins": [
    "some",
    "another"
  ]
}

The folder plugins

This folder contains all the manifest files of the plugins, refer to this tutorial to create them. Please use this naming convention: [plugin-id].json example: some.json or another.json.