Installing an Addon - Vanilla Success

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In Vanilla, Addons are installed by adding addons into one of the following directories:

/themes
/plugins

Installing an Addon by Symlink

Most addons have their source code managed in a VCS tool like Git. Copying a directory would make it difficult to update in the future through the VCS, so Vanilla prefers to symlink addons. Picture the following directory structure in a vanilla-docker setup.

workspace

vanilla
- plugins
- themes
vanilla-docker
repo-with-addons
- plugins/my-addon

The objective

Our goal here is to have my-addon be installed in the vanilla plugins directory.

Making a Symlink

MacOS or Linux

cd ~/workspace/vanilla/plugins
ln -s ../../repo-with-addons/plugins/my-addon

Note a relative symlink is used. This allows the symlink to continue to work when things are synced into the docker instance.

Windows

cd /D %userprofile%\workspace\vanilla\plugins
mklink \D my-addon ..\..\repo-with-addons\plugins\my-addon