Extensions Marketplace & Extension update

[XPOL555]

The current extension system in Modly is incredibly powerful, but discovering and installing new extensions can be a bit fragmented. Users currently need to manually hunt down GitHub repositories and paste URLs to install new AI models. A centralized way to browse and install community-created extensions would massively improve the user experience and encourage more developers to build for the platform.

I propose building a "Serverless Marketplace" directly integrated into the Modly UI, powered entirely by a public JSON registry hosted on GitHub. This avoids the need for a dedicated backend database or server infrastructure.

Here is how the architecture could work:

• The Registry: We create a registry.json file (either in the main repo or a dedicated modly-extensions repo). This file contains an array of metadata for all approved extensions (e.g., id, name, author, description, github_url, tags).
• The Creator Workflow: When a community developer creates a new extension, they don't upload the code here. They simply fork the registry repository, append their extension's JSON object to the list, and open a Pull Request.
• App Integration: The Modly React/TypeScript frontend makes a GET request to fetch the raw registry.json (potentially via a free CDN like jsDelivr to avoid GitHub rate limits). The UI parses this file and renders a clean "Marketplace" grid.
• One-Click Install: When a user clicks "Install" on an item, Modly triggers the existing installation logic using the github_url provided in the JSON.

[lightningpixel]

Thanks for the idea !

Actually, I’m currently working on setting up a marketplace with a server and database.

The issue with a public GitHub registry is that I’d have to constantly maintain it manually. The idea would be to have something a bit more independent.

That way, on the website, there would be a dedicated page for all extensions, with an Install button that directly installs the extension in Modly.

[XPOL555]

Yes that's also a viable option, for sure.

I'm mainly a web developer, I'd be glad to help on that. Feel free to assign it to me