MacDownApp / MacDownApp/macdown

Plugin manager

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Description

I think it would be real nice if MacDown had a plugin manager for plugin discovery, installing and managing installed plugins. Right now if you haven't installed any plugins the _Plug-ins_ menu is empty.

Could be a quite simple implementation - for example the plugin repository could be static JSON data hosted under GitHub pages. Downloading plugins from external GitHub repos.

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Research direction

Start by tracing MacDown’s existing Plug-ins menu and plugin handling. Define how a static JSON repository hosted on GitHub Pages would support plugin discovery, installation, and management from external GitHub repositories; done means the menu supports those workflows instead of being empty when no plugins are installed.

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Assessment

Tech stack
macos, objective-c
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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