Jets Plugins
Jets plugins help deploy your app. Some examples:
- jets-rails
- jets-sinatra
How Plugins Work
Plugins do a very little. In fact, you can deploy your app without the plugin, and Jets still works on AWS Lambda. So, what exactly do plugins bring to the table?
The primary function of plugins is to hook into the frameworkâs boot process and ensure Jets.boot also runs locally. This ensures that Jets-specific autoload paths like app/events work locally too. On AWS Lambda, the Jets.shim is the first thing that is called and it automatically calls Jets.boot already. In essence, plugins replicate this behavior locally.
For Rails, an Engine configures autoload paths like app/events to be managed by Jets instead of Rails. This is because some paths, like your custom Jets extensions, must be eagerly loaded upon boot to be available for code analysis and deployment.