# Plugin system in Elixir

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/plugin-system-in-elixir/6791>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** architecture, how-to-question\
**Created:** [July 11, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/plugin-system-in-elixir/6791 "2017-07-11T23:41:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/plugin-system-in-elixir/6791/9 "2017-07-12T14:31:29Z")

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I just do plugins via `gen_event`, isn’t that the easiest and most built-in way?

Literally I just send an event at whatever hook points I want and let whatever is listening to them do whatever they want at that point.

`gen_event` has it’s share of problems that I fixed in an erlang replacement library long ago, like using monitors instead of links (`gen_event` predates monitors did you know? ;-)). Does Elixir have a `GenEvent` that uses monitors? I’ve not actually checked, I just use my Erlang library in Elixir thus far… \>.\>

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