[Feature]: plugin system

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Issues

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Feature description

It would be great to allow Rust developers to extend Norgolith’s core functionality through plugins (e.g., RSS generation, sitemaps).

The following would be a dummy example of a plugin function:

#[norgolith_plugin]
fn rss_feed_generator(content: &str) -> Result<()> {
    // Generate RSS from `site.content`
}

The plugins lifecycle would be the following:

• Compilation: plugins are compiled as dynamic (or preferably static) libraries using cargo build --lib.
• Discovery: plugins are loaded from ./plugins directory at runtime.
• Execution: exposing hooks like pre_build or post_build could be ideal.

As for the plugins APIs:

• Content manipulation: access parsed Norg content, metadata and site config.
• HTTP server (maybe): extend the hyper server through tower (we are not using hyper v1 which natively supports middlewares).

There must be some security and stability concerns too:

• Sandboxing: restrict filesystem access outside the project directory (I have no fricking clue how to achieve it yet).
• Version pinning: ensure plugins declare compatible Norgolith versions to avoid crashes.
• Error handling: isolate plugins in threads to prevent panics from crashing the main process.

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As for the CLI tooling:

lith plugin new           # Scaffold plugins with example hooks.
lith plugin install rss   # Fetch from somewhere?
lith plugin update rss    # Update rss plugin.
lith plugin uninstall rss # Remove rss plugin.

I'm still unsure about the whole implementation, if the plugins should be uploaded to crates.io and how they will work in such case.

Help

Yes

Implementation help

No response

[NTBBloodbath]

Changed priority to low, I'm planning to use WASM instead of plain Rust dynamic libraries so I gotta learn WASM before I get my hands on it.