On Feb 2, 2015, at 7:47 PM, Shao Tian wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to implement plugin system in Node.js like the one in 
> Atlassian JIRA?

I am not familiar with Atlassian JIRA...

> For example, I may have a main page for displaying all the plugins. Each 
> plugin is like an independent web app, containing both html and node.js 
> backend code. 
> If I select one plugin in the main page, the main page is able to render the 
> html of corresponding plugin, and all the http requests from the plugin html 
> are
> handled by the node.js code of the plugin. Thus the main page is just a 
> container of bunch of plugins.
>  
> I know that with npm we can have modules, but I thought modules can contain 
> only javascript code? what about html, static files like images?

It's not node's job to do any of that. You can certainly use node to program a 
web framework that supports plugins -- or someone else may already have done so 
(search npm) -- but node itself is not a web framework and does not include 
such functionality.

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