I've been blocked with Tanzawa development for a while as I mull how to simultaneously use Tanzawa to make my own unique site and let it be flexible enough for others without making them adapt to everything I do. If someone else is using Tanzawa to power their site, I want it to be an expression of them, not me.

I recently figured out the answer to allow this: plugins.

Inspired by @maique's Tanzawa Love post, I finally sat down and started working on what plugins might look like. Ideally a plugin should be able to customize or extend anything anywhere, but I'm starting small: adding things to public pages.

This is the first plugin: a widget to display the current localtime in the top nav.

I imagine the capabilities growing over time. I'd like to let plugins store and manage data (e.g. settings), let them schedule periodic work ( e.g. call this api every hour and do something ), and maybe even run background tasks. But for now they're simple. Thank you for the inspiration @maique!