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Plug-in development

Plug-ins add independently published behavior through a public, instance-scoped runtime contract without patching the renderer or relying on a global registry.

Consume a plug-in

Create a registry from trusted packages, resolve requested features, and pass the resulting feature array into ordinary table options.

Author a runtime

A feature runtime can decorate roots, render layout content, react to table events, and release resources through its destroy hook.

Declare package and WTS compatibility in the manifest.
Validate dependencies and conflicts before creating the table.
Ship CSS and framework-neutral behavior from the plug-in package.

Security boundary

Only register packages your application trusts. A manifest proves compatibility and dependency shape; it is not a sandbox for untrusted JavaScript.

Resolve a plug-in per table

const installation = createDataTablePluginRegistry([
  auditPlugin
]).resolve([
  useDataTablePlugin(auditPlugin.manifest.name, { endpoint: '/api/audit' })
]);

new DataTable({ ...options, features: installation.features });