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page_title: Plugin development page_description: Plugin development for Grafana
page_keywords: grafana, plugins, documentation, development
Plugin development
From grafana 3.0 it's very easy to develop your own plugins and share them with other grafana users.
What languages?
Since everything turns into javascript its up to you to choose which language you want. That said its proberbly a good idea to choose es6 or typescript since we use es6 classes in Grafana.
##Buildscript
You can use any buildsystem you like that support systemjs. All the built content should endup in a folder named dist and commited to the repository.
##Loading plugins The easiset way to try your plugin with grafana is to setup grafana for development and place your plugin in the /data/plugins folder in grafana. When grafana starts it will scan that folder for folders that contains a plugin.json file and mount them as plugins. If your plugin folder contains a folder named dist it will mount that folder instead of the plugin base folder.
Examples / boilerplate
We currently have three different examples that you can fork to get started developing your grafana plugin.
- simple-json-datasource (small datasource plugin for quering json data from backends)
- panel-boilderplate-es5
- example-app