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title: Nx Plugin Development
description: Learn about the @nx/plugin package, which provides tooling to help create and maintain Nx plugins with generators and executors.
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Nx plugins are npm packages that contain [generators](/features/generate-code) and [executors](/concepts/executors-and-configurations) to extend a Nx workspace.

This package contains tooling to help plugin authors create and maintain plugins.

For more information, see the [plugins](/extending-nx/intro/getting-started) section of docs.