---
title: "Bytesize: Nextflow Plugin Registry"
description: "The why, the what and the how of the new Nextflow Plugin Registry"
url: "https://phil.ewels.co.uk/talks/2025/11/11/bytesize_plugin_registry"
site: "phil.ewels.co.uk"
author: "Phil Ewels"
section: "Talks"
type: "Bytesize"
date: "2025-11-11"
location: "Online"
event: "https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_nf_plugin_registry"
video: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaV3PALR0mU"
---

# Bytesize: Nextflow Plugin Registry

> The why, the what and the how of the new Nextflow Plugin Registry

The [Nextflow plugin registry](https://registry.nextflow.io/) is a central repository for discovering, sharing, and managing Nextflow plugins.

In this bytesize talk I discussed how Nextflow plugins used to be published and why we needed something new.
I gave a whistle-stop tour of the new registry and talked a little bit about how it works, and some of the new things that it enables us to do (like tell VSCode what config scopes plugins expose!).

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From the personal website of Phil Ewels, a software developer and bioinformatician in Stockholm, Sweden: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/
The whole site as Markdown: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/llms.txt