Installing and using plugins from the Marketplace

Strapi has a Marketplace that curates some of the official Strapi plugins to install directly from the admin panel. At the time of writing this book, the Marketplace is undergoing major changes and upgrades. The following screenshot shows version 3 of the Strapi Marketplace:

Figure 8.2: Strapi Marketplace version 3

The Marketplace will host a couple of official Strapi plugins that are not installed by default, as well as community-developed plugins. One of the official Strapi plugins that are not installed by default when creating a new Strapi project is the API Documentation plugin. This plugin allows us to create an OpenAPI document and visualize our API with the Swagger UI. OpenAPI is a standard for describing REST APIs that helps when documenting APIs, visualizing them with tools such as Swagger UI, automating them, and more.

While we can directly install a plugin from the Marketplace by clicking...