Building an addon

What you’ll need

If you want to create an addon you will need will need to create and host a web application. We provide sample code to get you started in the following languages:

In this guide will cover the following topics, providing code examples where appropriate.

1. Communicating with Squirrel and advising when the addon is ready to receive data

2. Defining a default state

3. Squirrel lifecycle hooks and events

4. Receiving data from Squirrel

5. Sending data to Squirrel

6. Building a property panel

Alternatively you can download the sample projects and review them. We have packed them full of comments to explain how things work.