As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to create Studio tools targeted toward a specific game. A lot of developers create plugins that are only for a specific game, but these are forced to run on any game open in Studio.
If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because myself and team members would be able to create game-specific tooling for Studio without having to find tricky ways to distribute the plugin.
Current Problem
The current way of doing this forces people to either publish their game-specific code as a plugin to the marketplace, or to distribute the plugin as an RBXM file to team members. Both of these are not ideal, because the marketplace would allow all people to grab the plugin, and distributing an RBXM is not user-friendly, especially for non-programmers.
Also, in order to make a plugin only work for a current place, you’d have to write specific code to check for the PlaceId or UniverseId, which is not very ideal, especially if the place could be standalone or exist in various dev/test environments.
Proposal
My request is that a new service container be added to the game hierarchy that runs scripts while in Studio, or add a new Script Context that runs scripts only in Studio. These scripts should only run in Studio, and shouldn’t run or be published with the actual game.
These could run in the same context as plugins, and thus have a way to listen for being unloaded after changes or explicit reloads (plugin.Unloading event).
