How are plugins loaded automatically?

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I’d like to understand better how discourse automatically loads plugins, e.g all those placed in the /plugins directory.

How does a plugin can provide a mount point and its resources during initialization?

Can someone either explain this or point me to where I can find more information?

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Your best starting point is the plugin/instance.rb file

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/plugin/instance.rb

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Yes that’s very useful for the plugin side, but I’m also interested in how the discourse side manages it.

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Don’t be misguided by the CustomEmoji class at the top, further in the file is where the Discourse side manages it.

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