We’re running a Plugin Week! Since we announced the new Strapi v4 last year, we’ve received some pretty overwhelming feedback and community interest around Strapi Plugins. We followed that up with a web marketplace release and then an in-app marketplace release.

Strapi Plugin install rates have been going through the roof doubling from around 300,000 before the launch to over 600,000 today.

As mentioned, we’re running a plugin week to celebrate this huge achievement with the community that enabled it. This will be from May 30th to June 3rd

The crowning event of this Plugin week is the very first Strapi Hackathon!

Our goal of the week is to celebrate plugin creators and show the power of Strapi plugins with sessions, workshops and hangouts!!

Here is what to expect:

May 30th

• Hackathon Launch 12pm CET
• Welcome Stream 5pm CET
• Plugin and Strapi 101 stream 5:20 CET

May 31st

• Q&A with Strapi Engineer 5:05pm CET
• Hangout in Discord 5:30pm CET

June 1st

• VirtusLabs on how they use Strapi plugins 5:05pm CET
• Hangout in Discord and secret activity 5:40pm CET

June 2nd

• Q&A with Strapi Engineer 5:05pm CET
• Hangout in Discord 5:30pm CET

June 3rd

• Closing session, recap of week + moments: 5pm CET
• Mini party in Discord 5:20 CET

StrapiConf Hackathon

As mentioned, we’re hosting our first community hackathon! Here’s everything you need to know

Rules

What is a valid submission? Following the theme of the hackathon, we’ll have people create plugins that follow the plugin guidelines detailed by the Strapi team. A valid submission consists of you submitting your plugin via our marketplace submission form and filling in our hackathon submission form. Your plugin project on GitHub should be tagged #StrapiPluginWeek and a video demo (of at least 1 minute long) of your plugin.

Prizes

For every plugin submitted, a team or individual will be given a 100 dollar gift-card for Open Collective to donate to their Open Source project of choice and Strapi will also donate an additional 100 dollars to an organization advocating underrepresented individuals in tech.

Besides this, we’ll have three main prizes

1st Prize - 1500 dollars

2nd Prize - 1000 dollars

3rd Prize - 500 dollars

We’ll have bonus prizes for the funniest/most creative plugin too - 400 dollars.

Inspiration

Well, we have a Tetris plugin, an SEO plugin, a Strapi Payments plugin so the sky's the limit. You can use our Canny page to see some of the community’s most requested plugins

How to participate!

Join our Discord and register your team (or yourself) on the event page.

Making a submission

• Push your code to GitHub
• Publish your plugin to npm
• Submit your Plugin to our marketplace
• Lastly, fill in the hackathon submission form.

Resources

We put together a Plugin page with curated plugin resources, everything you’ll need to build the plugins you need. Here are some other useful resources:

How to create a Strapi v4 Plugin

• Generate a plugin
• File structure
• Add a content-type to a plugin
• Server customization
• Admin customization
• Publishing on npm

For the more visual learners, we have a Youtube playlist

If anything is missing, let us know in Discord.

Also follow @strapijs for updates on the schedule and some other very exciting announcements!