The Sketch Developer Community
If you ever come to start develop a plugin for Sketch, you’d probably need help at some point. But since you’re in a pretty niche market, the answers were not really always out there everywhere.
Fortunately, the dev community stick together in few places, and people are incredibly helpful. Look into these channels and I’m sure you’ll find good mentors.
Sketch Developers
A new discussion area for developers working with the Sketch Platform. Created by Ale Muñoz and the Bohemian Coding team.
Sketch Plugins Mailing List
Mailing list for Sketch plugin developers. Up and running since January 2014, you’d certainly find high quality questions and answers. Best bet for the most tricky questions. Created by Ale Muñoz, he maintains a healthy list of Sketch plugins on Github, working with the Bohemian Coding team.
TeamSketch.io
A Slack group with a dedicated channel for Sketch plugin development. More than 1800 designers and developers are joined, which is certain a good place to look for instant feedback and ideas. Thanks for Josh Dunsterville for creating this great community.
Mocha/CocoaScript Issues Page
Sketch Plugin is heavily based on Mocha and CocoaScript. For syntactic issues and bug reports, it’d be the best to put in the libraries issues page. Make sure you identify whether your question is related to which library, usually Mocha classes starts with MO and CocoaScript classes starts with COS.
Twitter @bohemancoding
Official Twitter account for the team behind Sketch app. Tweet them for short enquiries and email them for longer investigation.
The Community Is Very Helpful
There’re always hidden gems somewhere around and you just need to dig it out. Let me know if you ever develop your first plugin!
Also, be sure to checkout my Magic Mirror for Sketch plugin for creating perspective mockup in Sketch.
I am sure you’ll find it helpful :)
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Originally published at james.ooo on October 23, 2015.
