Are there any decent tutorials on creating a plugin in 2.8? I understand the plugin API is not stable.

Hello! There are a couple guides, recently updated for 2.8: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/common-plugin-tasks I'd love to expand this though and to make

example-plugin

repo much more useful (and up-to-date) What are you hoping to do with your plugin?

Primarily I want to do what the shellcheck example is doing but with prettier. The example code isn't executable.

Okay yeah your best bet is to follow the formatter guide: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/plugins-fmt-goal Installing Prettier will probably be the most interesting part. The easiest approach is to use

BinaryPaths

to find it pre-installed on PATH - but you risk devs using different versions of Prettier. I don't see a way to install a prebuilt Prettier binary. So you might need to hook into Yarn or Npm - cc @average-australia-85137 who was looking into similar things

Yes I definitely want a specific version of a formatter because each version formats differently than the previous versions. I'll see where I land. Thank you.

Cool, please feel free to ask questions here 🙂

@incalculable-yacht-75851 I have a plugin that installs webpack & runs a build script over some targets (using the installed NPM) (as Eric was saying!) If anything there sounds useful feel free to reach out! (Code here: https://github.com/compyman/pants-node)