Directus Marketplace Beta

Speaker 0: This is the director's marketplace. It is in beta for now for this first release, so we do really want your feedback to make it even better. The focus of this first iteration is really about discovery and installation. I'm gonna show you each of those here. So in settings, on the left hand sidebar, there's a new section for the marketplace.

In this marketplace, we have a listing of all of the extensions that we've been able to find on npm. These extensions contain every single type of extension that you know from before. So those are interfaces, modules, panels, themes, etcetera. When you install an extension, you'd find those in the same places where you'd find them normally. So for interfaces, you'd find it in data model.

Modules show up in the sidebar, themes, appearance, etcetera. For any of those types, you can find them by, you know, current popularity, which ones were most recently published, or which ones are downloaded the most. In this case, let me go see if we can install a theme. So I'm going to look up with the search, kind of find the theme that I'm looking for. For each individual extension, we're pulling in the readme file from your GitHub repo if it's connected, and we're pulling in the author and maintainers as provided by npm.

Same goes for an author. So in this particular case, because Kevin has his GitHub linked to his npm, we can show, you know, the about information from his GitHub profile together with an avatar and all of the extensions that he has uploaded so far. To install the theme, I could just click the install button and there it goes. So now that this theme is installed, I can find it under appearance like I'm with any other theme. There it is.

Mhmm. And there we go. To manage extensions you have installed, you can go to the extensions tab as you would for extensions before, where you can now both disable and uninstall them again. In the future, there's a couple of additional features that we know we want to add, starting with verified authors, verified packages, allowing the end user to know which one is going to be trusted. But also, we're looking to see if we can open up monetization in the marketplace.

So this would allow you to sell extensions that you have built to others, in the ecosystem. That will be in the future release. In the meantime, we absolutely hope you enjoy this. Please do leave all and every bit of feedback you have in the Discord channel marketplace beta.