Community Spotlight #1

The Squilla extension marketplace is brand new. So instead of a curated “five hot picks” post, here's an honest read of where the community is at v0.1.0 and what we're hoping to highlight in future spotlights.

Where things stand today

The seven reference extensions in the repo — media-manager, forms, email-manager, sitemap-generator, content-blocks, resend-provider, smtp-provider — cover the basics every site needs. They're not built as “core plus”; they're built exactly the way a third-party extension would be, because that's the only way the abstraction stays honest. Read their source if you want a template for your own.

What we're hoping to spotlight next

Three categories the community could meaningfully fill:

• Search. A small Tengo extension that subscribes to node lifecycle events and pushes documents to Algolia, Meilisearch, or Typesense. resend-provider shows the shape — settings + event subscription + outbound HTTP — and is ~20 lines of Tengo.
• Redirects. A Tengo extension owning a redirects table, exposing a small admin micro-frontend, and registering a 301-handling filter. The patterns are all in the existing code.
• Privacy-respecting analytics. A gRPC plugin that owns one append-only table, collects path + UA + referrer per request via the filter chain, and exposes a charts page in the admin.

How to be featured

Squilla doesn't have a curated marketplace yet — we will when there's enough to curate. Until then, ship your extension on GitHub, write up what it does, and open a PR adding it to the showcase. The maintainer is reachable on the project's GitHub.

What we want from a community spotlight

Fewer, better. We'd rather highlight three production-quality extensions a quarter than ten thin ones a month. If you're working on something — even rough, even unfinished — file an issue describing it. We'll read it.