[Question] Plugin depends on NuGet

[Richy1989]

Hello,

I want to create a Plugin system for my Blazor Server application.

What if the Plugin itself depends on a Nuget Package in my case: BlazorCodeMirror6.
I need to Load the depended DLL as well as all the static files (.js and css etc).

When I load the Razor Page dynamically it expects to find the static files in wwwroot/_content/GaelJ.BlazorCodeMirror6.

Is there a way to achieve that with this framework?

I get the following error after trying to render my plugin:

Failed to fetch dynamically imported module: https://localhost:7258/_content/GaelJ.BlazorCodeMirror6/index.js
TypeError: Failed to fetch dynamically imported module: https://localhost:7258/_content/GaelJ.BlazorCodeMirror6/index.js

Source: System.Private.CoreLib

StackTrace: at Microsoft.JSInterop.JSRuntime.InvokeAsync[TValue](Int64 targetInstanceId, String identifier, Object[] args) at GaelJ.BlazorCodeMirror6.CodeMirror6WrapperInternal.CodeMirrorJsInterop.ModuleInvokeVoidAsync(String method, Object[] args)

PS:
I got it working by publishing the plugin and copy the files to the right location (wwwroot) at startup of the main project, but this is a very dirty way in my opinion.

[XTR-KyleWilkins]

The solution I found was to store the plugin and all of its dependencies in an azure storage account and then downloading them on application startup to the correct folder. Still dirty but it works well when you want to update the plugin but not the application loading the plugin.

[DMiradakis]

@XTR-KyleWilkins are you basically using an Azure BLOB for storing your plugin?

[XTR-KyleWilkins]

@DMiradakis I am using the Azure File storage but they are more or less the same in terms of capabilities.

[DMiradakis]

@XTR-KyleWilkins awesome, thank you.

I'm building the first ever dotnet job orchestrator, called Didact, and I've had to make an entire plugin system from scratch. It has been MISERABLE to build but I know it'll be well, well worth it. I'm planning to offer built in integrations to grab class library plugins like Azure BLOB, AWS S3, GitHub releases, and more. Glad to hear that others have made this work, too.