Creating our own plugins

So far, we've been installing external plugins that live in our node_modules folder. Strapi also provides us with a way to build local plugins. Functionality-wise, these are similar to external ones, except that they're part of our project and can't be readily reused in other projects.

So, let's create our first plugin, as follows:

1. If you are following along from the previous section, then stop the server to make sure that NODE_ENV is not set to production, then start the server using the yarn develop command.
2. To create a new plugin, we can use the CLI to generate its skeleton. Let's run the following command:

   yarn strapi generate plugin lms

Running the preceding command will generate a plugin skeleton for us.

3. Next, we will need to enable the plugin by adding it to the config/plugins.js file. Create this file and add the following code to it:

   module.exports = {
     // ...
     'lms&apos...