Developing a Plugin

This section talks about developing a Zellij plugin in Rust.

• Development Environment: walks through the example Rust plugin, this will explain how to create a local environment to iterate over plugin development.
• Plugin Lifecycle: talks about the plugin interface and zellij-tile - the Rust library Zellij provides to facilitate development
• Rendering a UI: Talks about the implicit contracts Zellij has with plugins in regards to ANSI rendering
• Upgrading and Backwards Compatibility: Gives instructions on how to upgrade Zellij plugins when a new Zellij version comes out, and when this needs to be done