15 - Real-world plugins

Congratulations on completing the tutorial! You’ve built a fully functional SFTP plugin with:

• PKL schema definitions
• Full CRUD lifecycle
• Discovery support
• Conformance tests
• CI/CD pipeline
• Local testing workflow

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Tutorial plugin

The complete SFTP plugin from this tutorial is available on GitHub:

• formae-plugin-sftp - The SFTP file management plugin built in this tutorial

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Production plugins

Study these production plugins to see real-world patterns:

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What’s next

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Concepts

Ready to go deeper? Check out the concepts guides:

• Collection Semantics - Set vs Array vs EntitySet
• Embedded Types - Nested types within resources
• Resolvables - Late-binding values
• Parent-Child Resources - Resources that depend on other resources
• Discovery Filters - Filtering discovered resources

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Reference

For detailed API documentation:

• Plugin Interface - Complete interface specification
• Schema Annotations - PKL schema annotation reference

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