Plugin specific Components with builder?

Questions
#1

Hi All,

I have now built a number of plugins with builder to keep track of data from my project, now I want to display results on my frontpage but see that I depend on the Builder Component,
Can you also create your own components with Builder or is that something for the future?

#2

Im my opinion, plugins created with builder, do not depend on builder.
Can you show me, why you think this?

#3

well if I make a plugin with builder I have a nice plugin for the backend that’s great. But if I want to display results on the frontend I have to use the builder components for that.
If I install my plugin on another OctoberCMS installation, I also have to install builder to display the results on the frontend, which is not the intention.

Now I’m writing my own components by hand but it takes a lot of time because that’s new to me, so if that could also be done with builder it would be a lot easier

#4

ok I understand. I never used the builder component (didnt know it exists).

I used builder to create a plugin, with backend forms. Then I created inside my new plugin a handwritten component, to display the data. Result: I dont need the builder plugin.

This component writing is a task of some minutes. For a beginner maybe longer. But not much.

#5

You do not even need to hand write the component:

php artisan create:component Acme.Blog BlogPosts does all the work

#6

Oke thx for your answer, I will dive in to creating components, i did find the scaffoling command that helped a lot indeed.