InvenTree Plugin Creator

Command line tool for scaffolding a new InvenTree plugin.

Description

This is a command line tool which allows for rapid scaffolding of a new InvenTree plugin.

It uses the cookiecutter project to generate a new project, based on a custom project template.

Installation

To install the plugin creator, run:

pip install -U inventree-plugin-creator

Usage

To create a new plugin, run:

create-inventree-plugin

This will prompt you for required information about the plugin you wish to create.

To view the available options, run:

create-inventree-plugin --help

Frontend Features

If you are developing a plugin which provides frontend (UI) features, after creating the initial plugin, run the following commands to install and build the initial version of the frontend code:

cd <myplugin>/frontend
npm install
npm run build

This will compile frontend code into the <myplugin>/static directory - ready to be packaged and distributed with the python plugin code.

Note: You must run npm run build each time before building and distributing the plugin.