Overview

This documentation provides sample implementations of the plugin architecture for Ed-Fi Dashboards. The intent is to provide detailed information about the creation of plugins and the complete interaction with data, services, and views while documenting the overall plugin architecture and major conventions so that an accomplished developer in the technology can successfully create plugins.

Audience

The primary audience for this document are developers implementing plugins for dashboards powered by Ed-Fi.

Prerequisites

The Ed-Fi platform architecture uses a collection of design patterns, architectural best-practices, conventions, and databases. In order to understand the code base and be able to write a plugin, it is important to understand these patterns and techniques. It is recommended that a developer intending to implement a plugin has knowledge and understanding of the dashboard’s extension mechanisms and has completed the dashboard setup guide. Setup information is available in the Ed-Fi Dashboards Getting Started guide and detail about the dashboard architecture can be found in the Ed-Fi Dashboard Developers' Guide.