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Using Directus Internals

To access internal systems like the API or the stores in app extensions, you can use the useApi() and useStores() composables exported by the @directus/extensions-sdk package.

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Directus UI components are globally registered, making them accessible throughout your extension without the need to import them.

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Using External APIs

To avoid Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF), app extensions cannot make requests to external servers by default. A common approach to achieve this is to create a bundle containing an endpoint that makes the external request, and an app extension that uses the now-internal endpoint to retrieve data.

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