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These external resources may help you to build and deploy your own plugins.

Building plugins on your laptop

Running example projects on localhost gives you a fast feedback loop on your desktop browser.

When you need to test on a physical mobile device or share a live preview with teammates, use a tunneling service.

ngrok

This reverse tunneling service generates a public HTTPS URL that proxies traffic directly to your local machine, which makes your local environment accessible anywhere.

Hosting plugins in the cloud

Local servers on localhost are great for building and testing plugins on your laptop.

These cloud services can be useful when you’re ready to deploy to a testing environment, or when you’re ready to deploy to production.

Cloudflare Workers

This service offers a serverless platform to host the web applications that power plugins, and offers a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to make it easier to work with Cloudflare.

Trabian Mesh

This service can host the web applications that power plugins, maintain session re-authentication, and route traffic through the financial institution’s Banno Online subdomain to bypass Safari’s third-party cookie restrictions.

Get inspired

“Go Build Something: A Challenge to Credit Unions” by Alexander Carlston, Chief Innovation Officer @ Great NorthWest FCU

Read how a credit union leader with no traditional web-development background used modern AI tools and Cloudflare Workers to prototype a live Banno plugin in just six hours. This story is a hands-on challenge showing that anyone at a community bank or credit union can bridge technical gaps and build tailored solutions for their members.


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Last updated Fri Sep 4 2026