New Open Source Plugins | Not able to install

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Hi,

I’m trying to install these plugins but it’s not working from UI:

@nocobase/plugin-collection-fdw

@nocobase/plugin-workflow-request-interceptor

I’m using NocoBase, version: 2.0.7-full

Any suggestions? Thanks!

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Please describe the problem in detail. What happened when the installation failed?

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I’m trying to install via UI plugin manager. I had Claude analyize the logs and this is what it reported:

This new log tells a much better story. The authentication problems from before are completely gone — you’re now fully logged in as userId:1 / nocobase with the root role. Here’s exactly what happened during this session:

The plugin add request went through successfully:

  • POST /api/pm:add was called at 16:46:43 with packageName: @nocobase/plugin-collection-fdw and registry: https://registry.npmjs.org/
  • It returned HTTP 200 in just 11ms

However, that 11ms response time is the red flag. A real plugin installation — which involves npm downloading the package from the registry — should take several seconds to minutes, not 11 milliseconds. An 11ms 200 response almost certainly means NocoBase acknowledged the request but the actual npm install either:

  1. Ran silently in the background and failed (NocoBase’s plugin manager queues installs asynchronously), or
  2. Was skipped/short-circuited — possibly because it detected the package was already partially registered or there was a pre-existing state from your earlier failed attempts.

After the pm:add call, the logs show the app just reloaded its normal UI state (routes, settings, themes, auth checks) with no plugin-load or migration activity logged whatsoever — confirming the install never actually executed.

What to check and try next:

First, look at a different log file. NocoBase writes npm install output to a separate application log, not the request log. Check for a file like storage/logs/app.log or look at your container’s stdout (docker logs <container_name>). That’s where you’ll see the actual npm error if one occurred.

Second, the most likely culprit is that @nocobase/plugin-collection-fdw is a commercial/enterprise plugin that requires a NocoBase Service Platform license. It is not freely available on the public npm registry. If it’s not on npmjs.org, the install will silently fail or return a 404 from npm. You’d need to authenticate with NocoBase’s private registry instead.

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I am having the same problem when i try to install for example the comments plugin , i insert @nocobase/plugin-comments in the package name and it just refreshs the page without installing

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I just deleted these two plugin files from the directory and upgraded the version to 2.0.8. Not sure why but both plugins are installed and activated now.