Feat: Experimental support for Kinds via grafana-app-sdk

[stevesg]

Which areas does this feature request relate to

• Create Plugin
• Sign Plugin
• Plugin E2E
• Plugin Meta Extractor
• Documentation

Problem

Support is being added to Grafana for processing "app manifest" embedded in plugins, generated by grafana-app-sdk. It would be valuable to have support in create-plugin to setup the scaffolding to enhance the user experience.

Solution

Whilst this is considered experimental and not for general consumption, we can hide The extra scaffolding

create-plugin --feature-flags=experimentalAppSdk

and/or

create-plugin add experimental-app-sdk

The extra scaffolding would include:

1. A directory for storing the .cue files, and some skeleton files:
   /kinds/...
2. A command to run the app-sdk code generator
   npm run generate:kinds
3. An extra copyFiles step in the build process to add the app-sdk-manifest.json to /dist
4. An extra hint in AGENTS/instructions.md about app-sdk/kinds and how/when to run code generation

Alternatives

• Variation on this is to add it to Go codegen/Magefile instead of npm (= e.g. mage generate-kinds), but frontend-only apps that define kinds are feasible and sensible.
• Creating or adding the functionality an external tool is another option (e.g. the app-sdk itself)

Additional context

No response

Are you interested in contributing the solution?

• Yes
• No