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Plugin Services

Plugin services allow you to run backend code on our servers to communicate with the Zengine REST API and other systems. Plugin services are specialized Node.js apps that receive data from our app and have built-in methods for communicating back with our API.

Plugin services are meant to act as a go-between from our app and other services. They receive data from the Zengine app or can fetch additional data from the REST API. Our API library allows you to make API requests as the user running your plugin. For instance, a user could click a button in your frontend plugin that makes a request to your plugin service. Your plugin service can then fetch tasks assigned to that user, send the user an email reminder, then return a successful result back to the user’s browser.

Service Limitations

Backend services are not supported on Zengine Vault.
Your zipped service must be under 5MB (including any 3rd party modules)
3rd party node modules should ideally be pure Javascript. Native modules or dependencies must be built against Amazon Linux libraries.
The service must consume less than (1.5GB) of memory
The service should execute quickly and must execute in under 1 minute
Services are stateless – there is no session or memory between one request and the next
Services exit immediately – if you make HTTP requests, you must wait for them to complete before returning or they will be cancelled