Extensions App Internals

Using Directus Internals

To access internal systems like the API or the stores in app extensions, you can use the useApi() and useStores() composables exported by the @directus/extensions-sdk package.

Directus UI components are globally registered, making them accessible throughout your extension without the need to import them.

Using External APIs

To avoid Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF), app extensions cannot make requests to external servers by default. A common approach to achieve this is to create a bundle containing an endpoint that makes the external request, and an app extension that uses the now-internal endpoint to retrieve data.