freesewing/markdown/dev/guides/plugins/structure/en.md

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title: Plugin structure
order: 100
---

A FreeSewing plugin is a plain object with the following structure:

```mjs
Object plugin = {
  String name,
  String version,
  Object hooks,
  Object macros,
  Array store,
}
```

A plugin **must** have the `name` and `version` properties.
The other properties are optional, and they map to the three different functionalities macros can provide:

- [`hooks`](/guides/plugins/hooks): Holds an object with lifecycle hooks the plugin wants to hook into
- [`macros`](/guides/plugins/macros): Holds and object with macros the plugin provides
- [`store`](/guides/plugins/store): Holds and Array with store methods the plugin provides.

Click on the links above for more details on the structure of these properties.