Summary: In a headless mode we do not have access to local storage. As a result, headless plugins that try to use `persistToLocalStorage` option crash. We should ignore the option for these plugins for now and add a way to persist the plugin state to the disk in a headless mode in the future. CHANGELOG: Ignore persistToLocalStorage in headless mode Resolves https://github.com/facebook/flipper/issues/4190 Reviewed By: lblasa Differential Revision: D40341873 fbshipit-source-id: 40774c0024f79cf1652f24146fd16f6a101ca99e
flipper-plugin
flipper-plugin is the dependency used by all modern Flipper plugins (project "Tommy").
For background: https://fb.quip.com/YHOGAnaPqAVJ
flipper-plugin is to be used as dev and peer dependency of all Flipper plugins. It provides:
- (TODO) Standard API's to interact with Flipper, such as the client connection.
- (TODO) Standard components to organize the UI
- (TODO) Testing utilities
API's provided by flipper-plugin are documented at fbflipper.com (TODO).
There should normally be no need to install flipper-plugin as dependency.
Rather, plugins should be scaffolded using npx flipper-pkg init (TODO) as documented here