Hi,
I’m somewhat new to Grafana, and I wish to contribute to developing new features on existing Grafana panel plugins but am unsure if there’s a guide for that or if someone could help me understand that process? I work on a Windows PC and already have the OSS Grafana installed. So can I for example fork the Grafana repository and then work on developing new features to the Geomap panel plugin in my local Grafana?
Thanks in advance
Hello @io81,
Please take a look at Contribute to Grafana | Grafana Labs and especially section Developer guide to get started.
You are correct: fork, develop new features and then submit PR for the team to review.
Thank you for the response. The guide mentions using WSL for developing plugins, but is it possible to develop without Linux? Because I already have Grafana setup as mentioned, with some existing Dashboards, so once I have forked, download the dependencies Yarn, Go and Node.js do I need to use Docker and go through the process of building Grafana; frontend and backend as mentioned in guide?
If the plugins you are trying to enhance are the Grafana ones, I think @mikhailvolkov got you on the right track. If you want to develop your own plugins, you don’t need an extra setup tho
Ok, so Linux is necessary if I want to enhance existing Grafana plugins. I can’t just fork it and start developing on my existing OSS Grafana setup using Windows?
@io81, Linux or Linux subsystem is a requirement according to the documentation and the blog: How to set up a Grafana development environment on a Windows PC using WSL | Grafana Labs
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