Why is next-plugin-google-analytics still experimental?

[jensmeindertsma]

I am looking to write a plugin to inject the meta tags needed for a PWA into the Head. I have over 200 lines worth of meta tags and it looks messy in my _document.tsx. I have seen the next-plugin-google-analytics that injects into the Head too. There doesn't seem to be any documentation about how this works ( there is no index.js for example ) and the README says it's still experimental. My question is: what's experimental about it? Can I write a plugin just like it and use it? All my plugin needs to do is inject into the Next.js Head inside the document.

[ijjk]

Hi, the plugins are still experimental while we iterate on the plugins architecture and throughout this iteration a lot of breaking changes will most likely occur and as such should not be relied on in applications yet

[ijjk]

The above approach does currently work although is behind this experimental flag which needs to be enabled in your next.config.js. Again, this will most likely be changed dramatically as the feature is iterated on so use is at your own risk

[jensmeindertsma]

OK, I'm willing to update it when the feature changes. Thanks for the help and I'll try it out.

[jensmeindertsma]

How would I turn this into a NPM package if there is no index.js to load from? Is this not necessary?

[ijjk]

You can publish it in the same way the @next/plugin-google-analytics package is set-up currently. You can name it whatever you like if you pass the package name manually as shown in this test the only requirement is a nextjs field in the package's package.json

[jensmeindertsma]

Thank you so much!