Example plugins folder

[stacey-gammon]

Would be great to move the functional test plugins to a top level examples folder that can then be tests in whatever means.

Should have good docs for how to build, @spalger has some ideas on what needs to be done to support this.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-operations

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Pinging @elastic/kibana-platform

[stacey-gammon]

I started to explore doing this here: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/52027/files

I thought it'd be as easy as seeing what custom functionality there was for the plugins inside test/plugin_functional/plugins and adding that to this new top level examples folder, but it appears to not be that simple. Even though I added projectPaths.push(resolve(rootPath, 'examples/*')); inside packages/kbn-pm/src/config.ts, when I run yarn kbn bootstrap, the plugin folders do not get picked up.

I did omit a nested plugins folder, because it seemed not necessary, I wouldn't really expect that to cause an issue, but, maybe.

Anyone have any ideas?

*** Update**

@joshdover solved the issue - need to re-compile kbn-pm via cd packages/kbn-pm && yarn run build and commit the newly built file.

[stacey-gammon]

cc @clintandrewhall - this is somewhat related to our discussion today. No matter where we end up building this documentation, it would be nice to have example plugins in here. We may need an x-pack examples folder too, though the interpreter fns are OSS so for now this may suffice.