Remix Update 0.8.7 — plugins and more

As we approach devcon5, we would like to introduce some of the new updates.

• User Experience

First, we spent quite a lot of time on polishing the user experience, as well as making sure the documentation and tutorials are up to date with the new UX.

We will have some new themes pretty soon, hopefully for improving the user experience even more.

• Plugins

Secondly, we were improving the plugin framework, trying a new configuration in the remix-alpha and asking plugin developers to update their plugin instance (thanks for that ;) ).

Please checkout https://github.com/ethereum/remix-plugin . Long story short, this allows anyone to develop a plugin and propose to have it integrated into the directory of plugins located in the Remix Plugin Manager.

Here’s a list of some the new plugins:
Gas Profiler, One Click Dapp, Solidity Flattener, Remix Workshops, 3box Spaces. These will complement our current list of plugins like Pipeline, MythX and a few others.

We really encourage you developers out there to build plugins: single feature apps, full features apps (plugins that can be run in IDE’s main panel - like Pipeline), and to share your APIs (so all the plugins can communicate with each other). This will allow us all to leverage each other’s work to improve the overall quality of user experience and tools.

Our goal is not to constrained plugins from running exclusively in the Remix IDE environment, but to facilitate running apps in other platforms. Furthermore, we don’t want to be the centralized managers and curators of plugins for Remix. We will be posting more about how we want to have a more decentralized experience for hosting and curating plugins.

Here’s a quick example of a plugin that interacts with the 3Box API:

And speaking of plugins and how to use them, we have a plugin for learning Remix and learning Solidity. It’s called Remix Workshop and we have just published a Medium post about it here. Take a look.

^ Huge thanks to @pldespaigne and @GrandSchtroumpf for the 3Box plugin.

Hopefully, by the time we get to devcon5 (in a few short weeks), we will have a few more additions too….

Stay tuned ;)