Sooner or later, every UI5 developer runs into the same situation: you have an application, and next to it a control library that the app should consume. Maybe there is even a Fiori Launchpad plugin in the mix. Three projects that belong together — but live in three separate repositories. And then the pain starts. How do you develop the library and the app at the same time? The usual answers are all bad: ...
When people talk about UI5 development, they usually mean one of two things: UI5 applications or UI5 libraries. But there is a third option that many developers overlook — Fiori Launchpad plugins. Plugins run inside the Fiori shell and can extend the launchpad itself: add header buttons, register user menu actions, or simply run in the background and do their job without any visible UI at all. SAPUI5 onlyFiori Launchpad plugins require SAPUI5. They are not available in OpenUI5, because sap.ushell is not part of the OpenUI5 distribution. ...