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Commands in the Medusa CLI starting with plugin: perform actions related to plugin development.

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These commands are available starting from Medusa v2.3.0.

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plugin:publish

Publish a plugin into the local packages registry. The command uses Yalc under the hood to publish the plugin to a local package registry. You can then install the plugin in a local Medusa project using the plugin:add command.

bash

npx medusa plugin:publish

plugin:add

Install the specified plugins from the local package registry into a local Medusa application. Plugins can be added to the local package registry using the plugin:publish command.

bash

npx medusa plugin:add [names...]

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  `names`
  
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  The names of one or more plugins to install from the local package registry. A plugin's name is as specified in its `package.json` file.
  
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plugin:develop

Start a development server for a plugin. The command will watch for changes in the plugin's source code and automatically re-publish the changes into the local package registry.

bash

npx medusa plugin:develop

plugin:db:generate

Generate migrations for all modules in a plugin.

bash

npx medusa plugin:db:generate

plugin:build

Build a plugin before publishing it to NPM. The command will compile the output in the .medusa/server directory.

bash

npx medusa plugin:build