What problem does it solve?
Developing Hydro plugins often requires reliable cross-process event coordination, lifecycle management, and resource cleanup across multiple servers. This Skill provides a comprehensive reference to Hydro's event system, including the Context API, cluster-safe broadcasting, 60+ event types, automatic cleanup via ctx.effect, scheduled tasks via ctx.interval, and replaceable modules via ctx.provideModule.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Event API overview: listen, one-time listen, emit, parallel, serial, and cross-process broadcast
- Cluster safety and orchestration: safely broadcast across processes and servers
- Resource lifecycle and modularity: resource cleanup, scheduled tasks, and replaceable modules
- Real-world patterns: examples for plugin development, including generator-based registration using yield
Quick Start
Register plugin event listeners and enable cross-process broadcasts to harmonize plugin behavior