Summary: This diff removes most remaining Electron imports, by storing env and path constants on the RenderHost. As nice side effect those paths are all cached now as well. To make sure RenderHost is initialised before Flipper itself, forced loading Flipper through a require. Otherwise the setup is super sensitive to circular import statements, since a lot of module initialisation code depends on those paths / env vars. Reviewed By: nikoant Differential Revision: D31992230 fbshipit-source-id: 91beb430902272aaf4b051b35cdf12d2fc993347
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