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How Plugins run

Plugins code are written using web technologies: HTML, CSS and Javascript.

In order to provide stability and security to the Qatium platform the plugins are splitted in two parts:

  • Plugin Engine: Has access to the SDK. This artifact runs in a sandboxed environment in the main thread, which does not have access to Web APIs. This means, the plugin can use all the common Javascript APIs like calling console.log, using Promises or creating Arrays, but cannot access the DOM to modify UI elements.

  • Plugin UI: The second part runs in an iframe and allows the plugin to display a user interface for the plugin engine and access the Web APIs.

Learn more about communicating between the engine and UI.