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Sample Custom Front Plugin

Through Front's Plugin API, developers can build Custom Plugins in Front which can read, manipulate, and communicate with conversation data in Front.

This is a simple example plugin with a mocked CRM service with fake data to show how a very simple Front Custom Plugin could provide value by bringing your own data into context for conversations. If you want to test it directly, go to Settings > Plugins and API > Plugins and add a new plugin with https://frontapp.github.io/plugin.html as the endpoint. You should see a plugin appear in your integration side panel like this:

You can use this sample as a starting point to begin developing, but you must host the plugin yourself and include our library. You may use any framework or library you wish, just add <script src="https://dl.frontapp.com/libs/frontjs.min.js"></script>. We used VanillaJS/HTML/CSS for simplicity.

For more information about Front's Plugin API, visit the documentation here: https://dev.frontapp.com/plugin.html

frontapp.github.io's Issues

Cannot listen to changes from plugin

I created a plugin, hosted it in AWS.

Then had this code in main.js

Front.on('conversation', function (data) {
    console.log(data)
});
  
Front.on('no_conversation', function (data) {
    console.log(data)
});

Front.on('single_conversation', function (data) {
    console.log(data)
});

But it has an error:

Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: on is not a valid function for context noConversation.

can this be installed with npm?

can this be installed with npm?

Update for new plugin SDK?

It'd be great if you guys could update this to use the new version of the SDK :)