How I built an open-source web-based plugin system

This talk is about the GSoC 2024 project where I worked on implementing a plugin system for MIT App Inventor. Here's an outline of the talk:

• Introduction to plugins and plugin systems
• Introductions to MIT App Inventor and its existing extension system
• Explain why we needed to build a new plugin infrastructure on top of this existing system
• Explain the challenges of building a plugin system
• Explain the approaches I explored to implement this project
• Explain why I went with the final solution

This talk will cover things like web security, untrusted code sandboxing, and other similar topics in an easy-to-understand manner and the audience need not be familiar with any of these topics.

By the end of this talk, they will have a clear understanding of App Inventor, its plugin system, how I built a new plugin system on top of it, and why it was a challenging process.