Setting up local plugin in Strapi without the Plugin SDK

[Bassel17]

What does it do?

• Adding as section to local plugin creation about how to set it up without plugin sdk
• adding a warning for local plugins that are created with plugin sdk and how to manage it's dependencies

Why is it needed?

• people are having issues with plugins setup locally, this is a solution for them to go with before we fix the issue on our side
• documents how you can create a plugin without the sdk for even more complicated issues

Related issues:

Resolves strapi/strapi#22547
Resolves strapi/strapi#22162
Resolves strapi/strapi#22536
Resolves strapi/strapi#21823

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[jhoward1994]

What do you think about removing the section you've added at L152?

As we're discussing in DX-1897 - I wonder if it'd be better for us to treat this as a bug and raise an issue in the monorepo ?

[Bassel17]

What do you think about removing the section you've added at L152?

As we're discussing in DX-1897 - I wonder if it'd be better for us to treat this as a bug and raise an issue in the monorepo ?

we can indeed do that
@maccomaccomaccomacco thoughts ? the section mentioned above essentially discusses the issue we have and the proposed workaround

[pwizla]

What do you think about removing the section you've added at L152?
As we're discussing in DX-1897 - I wonder if it'd be better for us to treat this as a bug and raise an issue in the monorepo ?

Indeed, I was going to say that:

• From a pure docs point of view, a big "caution" callout is frightening for users, and we should find another way to pass the information.
• This kind of thing seems more likely to be fixed at the product level than "permanently" documented. If the issue will be resolved soon, we could temporarily add a ::: note callout with a link to another resource.

Edit: I made further adjustments and turned it into a section.

[pwizla]

LGTM, made some adjustments (formatting, consistency with the rest of the docs)

[pwizla]

@jhoward1994 @Bassel17 @innerdvations OK to merge this one today? 😊 Or should I wait?

(merged = live on docs.strapi.io a few minutes later)

[Bassel17]

@pwizla go ahead it's good to go