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Bhaskar Kumar Arya
Bhaskar Kumar Arya

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How I Architected a VS Code-Style Plugin System for an Electron WhatsApp Client

I've been building SmartChat — an open-source WhatsApp desktop client — and the
most interesting engineering challenge was designing a plugin system where both
internal features and external plugins consume identical APIs. Here's what the
architecture looks like, why I made specific tradeoffs, and what I learned.

[Full post would expand each section from the README and architecture docs with
code examples from the SDK and kernel interfaces]

GitHub: https://github.com/Bhaskar-kumar-arya/SmartChat

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