superset/superset-frontend/temporary_superset_ui/superset-ui/docs/debugging.md

# Debug Superset plugins in Superset app

## Activate plugins for local development

1. First, make sure you have run `yarn` and `yarn build` in `superset-ui` or your own plugin repo.
2. Go to [sueprset-frontend](https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/tree/master/superset-frontend),
   use `npm link` to create a symlink of the plugin source code in `node_modules`:

   ```sh
   cd incubator-superset/superset-frontend
   # npm link ~/path/to/your/plugin
   npm link ../../superset-ui/plugins/plugin-chart-word-cloud
   ```

3. Start developing with  webpack dev server:

   ```sh
   npm run dev-server
   ```

   The dev server will automatically build from the source code under `path/to/your-plugin/src` and watch the changes.

## Deactivate plugins

To deactivate a plugin, simply run `npm install` in `incubator-superset/superset-frontend` again.