Plugins

BTST ships installable capabilities with different boundaries. Full-stack plugins register backend and client behavior. OpenAPI is backend-only, Route Docs is client-only, UI Builder is client-only and depends on CMS, and Better Auth UI is a companion for an application that already runs Better Auth.

Every capability below is released and installable. Choose a page to see its actual payload and prerequisites; the catalog does not mix roadmap ideas into the available inventory.

Representative decision guides

These three entries establish the decision pattern for a complete feature, a workflow-heavy feature, and an intentionally one-sided plugin.

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Blog

Publish and manage a content section inside the React application you already run.

Requires

A BTST database adapter

Maintained paths

Next.js 15+ App Router · React Router v7 · TanStack Start

Explore Blog

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Form Builder

Let operators design forms visually, publish them inside your app, and collect validated submissions.

Requires

A database adapter with isolated transaction support

Maintained paths

Next.js 15+ App Router · React Router v7 · TanStack Start

Explore Form Builder

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OpenAPI

Expose an OpenAPI 3.1 contract for registered BTST routes and, when useful, an interactive API reference.

Requires

A registered BTST backend stack to inspect

Maintained paths

Next.js 15+ App Router · React Router v7 · TanStack Start

Explore OpenAPI

More released plugins

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AI Chat

Add a streaming conversation surface while choosing the model, access policy, and operating limits yourself.

Requires

An AI SDK language model; A database adapter with isolated transaction support for authenticated persistence

Maintained paths

Next.js 15+ App Router · React Router v7 · TanStack Start

Explore AI Chat

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CMS

Define structured content in TypeScript and give operators generated forms for managing it.

Requires

A BTST database adapter; Code-defined Zod content types

Maintained paths

Next.js 15+ App Router · React Router v7 · TanStack Start

Explore CMS

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UI Builder

Let operators compose pages visually, store the layout through CMS, and render it on routes you own.

Requires

The CMS plugin, added automatically by the CLI

Maintained paths

Next.js 15+ App Router · React Router v7 · TanStack Start

Explore UI Builder

Full-stackReleased · Preview

Kanban

Add boards, columns, tasks, priorities, and drag-and-drop workflows inside your product.

Requires

A database adapter with isolated transaction support

Maintained paths

Next.js 15+ App Router · React Router v7 · TanStack Start

Explore Kanban

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Comments

Attach threaded discussion and moderation to a resource your application already owns.

Requires

A BTST database adapter; An adopter-owned host resource

Maintained paths

Next.js 15+ App Router · React Router v7 · TanStack Start

Explore Comments

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Media

Upload, organize, register, and reuse media through a library that runs with your storage.

Requires

An isolating Prisma, Drizzle, or Kysely database adapter for persistent writes; A configured media storage adapter

Maintained paths

Next.js 15+ App Router · React Router v7 · TanStack Start

Explore Media

Client-onlyReleased · Preview

Route Docs

Generate an explorable reference for the client routes already registered in your BTST stack.

Requires

Registered BTST client routes to inspect

Maintained paths

Next.js 15+ App Router · React Router v7 · TanStack Start

Explore Route Docs

Client-onlyCompanionReleased · Preview

Better Auth UI

Add auth and account routes to a BTST client stack that already has a Better Auth backend.

Requires

An existing Better Auth backend and browser client; The supported @btst/better-auth-ui and Better Auth package cohort

Maintained paths

Next.js 15+ App Router · React Router v7 · TanStack Start

Explore Better Auth UI

Build a plugin

Versioned technical metadata

Build-time consumers can import PLUGINS and the PluginDecisionMeta type from @btst/codegen/meta. The contract carries technical inventory such as topology, relationship, maturity, dependencies, maintained integrations, and canonical docs, demo, and source identifiers. Audience copy, workflow wording, and calls to action remain presentation-owned.

Consumers that cannot wait for a package release can read the checked-in plugin-decisions.json during their build or content-validation step. Pin the raw URL to a commit when reproducibility matters. The same artifact is published as @btst/codegen/plugin-decisions.json; check schemaVersion before consuming its eleven released plugins records. Do not fetch it from the browser at runtime.

After changing PLUGIN_DECISIONS, regenerate and verify the artifact from the repository root:

pnpm --filter @btst/codegen plugin-decisions:generate
pnpm --filter @btst/codegen plugin-decisions:check