# Setup for developing/testing kong plugins

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/setup-for-developing-testing-kong-plugins/7402>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [November 5, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/setup-for-developing-testing-kong-plugins/7402 "2020-11-05T15:10:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Abhishekvrshny](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/abhishekvrshny/32/1613_2.png) [@Abhishekvrshny](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Abhishekvrshny)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/setup-for-developing-testing-kong-plugins/7402/1 "2020-11-05T15:10:16Z")

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It would great to know how does your local setup for developing and testing custom kong plugins look like? How do you develop and test multiple kong plugins and run integration tests across them apart from running unit and functional tests on each plugin separately? How do you build a kong image with these custom plugins against which the tests can run and can then be deployed to production?

I would also like to share my setup which is based on [kong-pongo](https://github.com/Kong/kong-pongo) and uses [konga dashboard](https://github.com/pantsel/konga) as the GUI. It’s available at [https://github.com/Abhishekvrshny/kong-island](https://github.com/Abhishekvrshny/kong-island).

Would appreciate your feedback!

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**Author:** ![utix](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/utix/32/2424_2.png) [@utix](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/utix)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/setup-for-developing-testing-kong-plugins/7402/2 "2020-12-16T02:04:11Z")

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Nice job! I use it to test my plugins

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**Author:** ![mehuls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/mehuls/32/4438_2.png) [@mehuls](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/mehuls)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/setup-for-developing-testing-kong-plugins/7402/3 "2024-04-14T15:02:55Z")

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Wrote a post on my setup [Kong plugin development with breakpoint debugging - DEV Community](https://dev.to/mehuled/breakpoint-debugging-with-kong-plugin-development-75a)