As the title say, I am trying to develop a plugin architecture for an electron app.
So far I have handle my custom plugin store the download of the plugin source which consist of an single main.js and a style.css.
I am stuck now since I don't know how to "require" the file from my application.
A little more explanation on this main.js file:
I want to require that main.js file to that I can retrieve the exported class to create a new instance in my PluginManager system.
It would be like so:
// plugin-manager.ts
loadPlugin(pluginId: string) {
const pluginClass = await import(path.join('/somewhere-in-the-fs', pluginId));
const plugin = new PluginClass({ app: myApp });
this.enabledPlugins.push(plugin);
}
tldr: I'm stuck at the await import() part because obviously my plugin is not in my running node environment.