So far in this chapter, we've looked at how to create plugins, how to use third-party plugins in our applications, how to add communication between plugins, and how to create dependencies between plugins.
Plugins are a great way of managing your code base by splitting it up into smaller, more manageable chunks of functionality. But like every design strategy, plugins have some downsides. The downsides are mainly in the form of extra overhead when it comes to our registering and configuring them for our applications. In fact, configuration alone can be a big headache for applications. Let's look at how we can mitigate this.
When you think back to our index.js entry file from the last example, we simplified this by pushing all our business logic to plugins, making for a very readable and easy-to-follow entry file for new users of our codebase.
But now let's think about how this scales. As more functionality is added, the number of plugins would obviously grow...