Best way to persist plugin-specific data

Development Plugins
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What is the best way to persist some extra data specific to a plugin where the volume might be arbitrarily large.
To give an example, I was looking into building a plugin to provide full text search in resources, how to best store the index?
I tried using a separate SQLite database but turns out using a native module like SQLite with webpack is not trivial.
Appreciate any ideas.

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I tried using a separate SQLite database but turns out using a native module like SQLite with webpack is not trivial.

The app is packaged with SQLite so I could give access to the module, like it's already done for fs-extra.

There's also a simple key/value store that could be exposed to plugin. Would that work for your plugin?

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I guess it should work.
At some point I'd like to try writing a plugin in Rust compiled to WebAssembly, and I imagine I'll face similar issues then, but that's another story.

I wanted to use sqlite's FTS capabilites, so this won't help.

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Then you may have to bundle an embedded database separately, such as SQLite / H2. As for the trouble... Nodejs native modules are troublesome

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did this ever go anywhere? sqlite wouldn't really be useful if the plugin is used across devices. I'd imagine something like (for osx)

$HOME/.config/joplin-desktop/plugins/io.github.jackgruber.backup/ where the plugin is sandboxed to only be able to write there, and then maybe a joplin.fs.read/write function to access the files there.

this way things are synced as well. I wouldn't need to configure settings for plugins for each device too.

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Not really, I used sqlite as I needed its full-text search capabilities and didn't care about sync.

I am not sure why you're assuming things will get synced (or am I misreading and this is a part of the proposal?). Currently even Joplin's own settings aren't synced, much less any plugin settings/data.

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oh I don't know why I'm assuming it would be synced either. I was confusing the app dir with the sync dir for a moment

link here: [feature] persistent storage for plugins · Issue #8080 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub