Hi Everyone,
I’m hoping to get some advice from the community on how to learn Appian Custom Plugin development.
I have 3.5 years of experience as an Appian developer and am familiar with standard Appian development (SAIL, records, process models, integrations, etc.). However, I have no experience with custom plugin development.
I have reviewed the Appian documentation, but I feel like I’m missing a learning path. It’s difficult to figure out:
How to start as a beginner
What are the actual prerequisites are
How to go from developing plugin code to testing in Appian
What a good first plugin project should entail
I would greatly appreciate any advice from anyone who has experience with:
A learning path for plugins
Examples or GitHub repos for beginners
Advice on local Appian development for testing plugins
Things you wish you had known when you started
Any advice, links, or personal experience would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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What kind of plugins are you looking for?
All plugins in the app market contain their source code. Did you try that?
Thank you for the response.
I intend to learn all kinds of Appian plugins (UI components, function plugins, connected systems, and so on), not only UI.I have reviewed the source code for the AppMarket plugins. However, as a beginner, it is hard for me to figure out:
the minimal working structure for each kind of plugin
how the end-to-end lifecycle process works (code → build → deploy → test)
and the proper learning order among the different kinds of plugins