create-adobe-plugin

Create Adobe Plugin is an tool that makes it easy to start developing Adobe plugins. It offers a CLI and configuration options to get you started. Currently it supports Adobe Premiere Pro and OSX.

Installation and CLI usage

To install (or update to the latest version):

npm install -g create-adobe-plugin && create-adobe-plugin--setup

npm is a commonly used package managment system used to install JavaScript based applications.

Available commands

create-adobe-plugin - Creates an adobe plugin
create-adobe-plugin--setup - Configures your system for developer mode

Development

Under the hood the project uses Yarn, Plop and a little bit of BASH.

Available commands

yarn make - Starts the flow to create an adobe plugin using plop
yarn setup - Starts the flow to for developer mode using a bin script

Bolilerplate Apps

The boilerplate apps are a collection of sample applications although they were not originally written by the developers of this tool, they have been edited to work with the generator.

• AdobePremierePro: PProPanel

Resources

• Adobe Common Extensibility Platform (CEP)
• Adobe CEP sample extensions

TODOs

• Windows support

  • Plugin paths
  • setup for windows

• Support for other Adobe products:

  • 'Illustrator'
  • 'InDesign'
  • 'Photoshop'

• Custom plugin prefix e.g. com.[insert].plugin

• Add bundling:

  • The ZXPSignCmd signing utility creates signed .zxp bundles for Add-Ons or direct distribution.

  • Microsoft Visual Studio Code, and the ExtendScript debugging extension. This extension running in VSCode is Adobe's recommended ExtendScript development environment. Sorry, ExtendScript Toolkit; you had a good long run.

  • Use the ExManCmd command line utility to test .zxp installation.