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I aspire to achieve all of this someday!

The key challenges I foresee are:

- Backend: offer extensibility that is powerful while secure in our multi-tenant cloud service.

- Frontend: ensure that custom plugins don't feel limiting while not disrupting the unified design, as the overall software appearance, not just the core, shapes the end-users' brand perception/experience

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As for frontend - you could build reusable components and make possible to use them/build upon them. Microsoft made FluentUI to make consistent and usable components across product line. However each product customizes styling slightly and builds their own components that are not opened up... which is pity.

If you ever plan having different things, better keep them in mind at the beginning - bolting them in afterwards may be cumbersome.

Yes! We'll probably need to isolate some of the existing components and commit on their api stability so people know they can reuse them safely

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