Debug Superset plugins in Superset app

Activate plugins for local development

1. First, make sure you have run yarn and yarn build in superset-ui or your own plugin repo.

2. Go to superset-frontend, use npm link to create a symlink of the plugin source code in node_modules:

   cd incubator-superset/superset-frontend
   # npm link ~/path/to/your/plugin
   npm link ../../superset-ui/plugins/plugin-chart-word-cloud
   

3. Start developing with webpack dev server:

   npm run dev-server
   

   The dev server will automatically build from the source code under path/to/your-plugin/src and watch the changes.

Deactivate plugins

To deactivate a plugin, simply run npm install in incubator-superset/superset-frontend again.