Creating Plugins

You may be looking to build and perhaps publish a plugin that doesn’t exist yet, or you may just be curious to know more about the anatomy of a Gatsby plugin (file structure, etc).

Core concepts

• Each Gatsby plugin can be created as an npm package or as a local plugin
• A package.json is required
• Plugins implement the Gatsby APIs for Node, server-side rendering, and the browser

This section of the docs includes the following guides:

In this section:

• Naming a Plugin
• Files Gatsby Looks for in a Plugin
• Creating a Generic Plugin
• Creating a Local Plugin
• Creating a Source Plugin
• Creating a Transformer Plugin
• Configuring Usage with Plugin Options
• Submit to Plugin Library
• Maintaining a Plugin