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The TinyMCE Plugin Generator is designed to make it quick and easy to get started creating plugins to extend and enhance your rich-text editing experience.

Install the generator

The plugin generator is built with the project scaffolding tool Yeoman. To get started install both yo (the yeoman command) and the generator with the following command:

npm install --global yo generator-tinymce

Wait for the install to finish.

Run the generator

Start the generator with the following command:

yo tinymce

You will then be guided through these questions:

1. Plugin name?
   The name of the plugin.
2. How do you want to write your plugin?
   With what technology do you want to write your plugin? ES2015 transpiled with Babel, Typescript or the module system used internally by Tiny called Bolt.
3. Use yarn instead of npm?
   Use yarn instead of npm for a speedier install.
4. Skip git repo initialization?
   Here you can skip the creation of a new repository for the plugin.
5. What’s your name?
   For license.
6. Your email? (optional)
   For license.
7. Your website? (optional)
   For license
8. Which license do you want to use?
   Choose the license for the plugin.

Yeoman installs the needed dependencies, and the project is bootstrapped and ready. cd into the plugin directory and run the following command to start the auto-reloading development server:

npm start

Create distribution ready build

Run the following command as root once you have completed development of the plugin:

npm run build

A dist directory will be created with a directory named the same as your plugin containing three files:

• plugin.js - unminified plugin bundle
• plugin.min.js - minified and uglified plugin bundle
• LICENSE - the text file containing your license