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Version: 12.x (Current)

The Marketplace

The Mia-Platform Marketplace contains several code resources that facilitate a faster and frictionless building of your architecture.

In the Marketplace, you will be able to choose from a set of items, also called components, to easily set up a single microservice or a bundle of resources with predefined and tested functionalities.

The Marketplace components types you can use include:

  • Plugin: a ready-to-use Microservice.

  • Template: a base repository with some boilerplate code from which you can start to create a new Microservice.

  • Example: a specific use-case, a ready-to-use model to create a new Microservice. On the contrary of the Template, an Example already contains some ready to use business logic code, that you can later modify to match your exact needs.

  • Application: a bundle of resources including Plugins, Templates, and Examples, but also Endpoints, Collections, and Public Variables.

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Templates and Example source code is open source software, and it is hosted on public Git repositories. Visit the Mia-Platform Marketplace GitHub page to browse their source code.

Explore the Marketplace​

Mia-Platform Marketplace has two different entry points, both located in the Design Area of the Console.

To browse Marketplace Applications, head to the Applications section and click on the button Create new Application. For more information see the related page.

To browse Markeplace Plugins, Templates and Examples, go to the Microservices section and click on the button Create a Microservice, then click on the option For Marketplace of the dropdown menu.

In both cases, you will be able to filter components by Category, a property reflecting the purpose, the field, or the use-case a component is associated with (e.g. Data visualization).

The results of your search will always appear organized by Category.

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Marketplace components lifecycle​

Each Marketplace component has a predetermined development lifecycle:

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The following are the expected stages along a Marketplace component lifecycle:

  • Coming soon: implementation has just started, these components cannot be used yet (users can still be informed about the existence of a new component)

  • Preview: first usable release, components may include bugs and be subject to undocumented breaking changes

  • Beta: implementation is complete, these components won't be subject to any undocumented breaking change but may still include bugs (hence they must be used with caution)

  • Stable: implementation is stable (bugs free). Consequently, this stage represents the period before the component's official release and its documentation in the release note.