Allow us to stage a development folder with lua files as Local plugins

[ketrab2004 (ketrab)]

This post focuses too much on the solution instead of the problem.

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Personally if I were to solve this problem I would use a system like the InternalSyncService, which already has a few feature requests:

Integrate Rojo into Roblox Studio officially

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to onboard new developers to use Rojo. Rojo enables me to use Git and a variety of sources. Rojo means I can turn off my computer in the middle of making a game, and I never lose work. Rojo solves my problems. Rojo lets me use a better editor. Rojo also has additional issues where it can’t sync certain assets because it’s not a 1st class citizen. If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because I could us…

Implement a "src" folder for third-party programming workflows

“src” and the use case “src” is short for “source code.” In a sense, a source code folder contains all the code for a game, usually with an automatically organized folder hierarchy. This allows the code to be edited outside of Roblox Studio. As a developer, having to use tools such as Rojo can feel like an extra step when trying to use third-party tools for programming. This wastes precious time. To resolve this, it would be neat to optionally have an “src” hard-copy folder associated with an…

We need a coding environment, not a coding window

I have been using Visual Studio Code + Rojo for the past few months, and it has been a decent experience. As a solo programmer however, I don’t find that I reap the benefits that a team would, so it makes more sense for me to just use Roblox Studio. After wiping my computer recently and deciding not to setup Rojo again, here are my thoughts after returning to Roblox Studio: For as long as I can remember, (I’ve been coding on Roblox since 2009) opening a script has always just opened up a windo…

and make a service that runs scripts under it as plugins, that would make it easier for both studio and power users. Also it would allow for place specific plugins (as an extra usecase for bonus points).

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This is why you should focus more on the problems instead of the solution. I came up with a completely different solution and the Roblox engineers will also.

I would show support for the feature request posted above. And create a feature request for a PluginScriptService, or whatever you would like to call it.