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in the past (somewhere around 8.4) it was possible to include plugins into a "hidden" plugin application for referencing them in other apps.

As André stated, this is still possible to include the plugins in a "hidden" application, but the plugins from the hidden application are not visible to another application during development in the local cumulocity tools runtime.

In an older version of "cumulocity-tools" (Version 2.0.26) the local development server detected all other applications, that exist in the same parent folder during the startup of the development server (c8y server command)

Is there a configuration parameter to enable this detection?

Best regards
Meykel

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After and including version 2.1.0 of the tool you need to use the flag -s or --searchSibling to load plugins from sibling apps inside the same parent folder.

Considering this folder structure 

 - appsFolder
    - appA
    - appB

After 2.1.0 version of the cumulocity-tools you need to run this command to use plugins from appB while running the command from /appsFolder/appA:

c8y server -s -u https://acme.cumulocity.com

You can also find more information on other flags by running c8y help.

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You can install applications that are not shown in the app switcher by using the noAppSwitcher option of the manifest. For sharing common code like Angular services, I recommend to do that at development time using libraries rather than at runtime by referring to files elsewhere. This is a more robust mechanism and provides the opportunity for build-time optimizations.

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  • Hi André. I've updated the question to include your answer. – Meykel Jan 29 '18 at 07:45
  • Ahh ok, I don't know. Let me ask. I only know that the "parent folder magic" was confusing to some people, so maybe there was some change. – André Jan 29 '18 at 08:55