# Cordis Showcase — Plugin systems, explained

> Plugin systems, explained (iPhone/iPad app by OVIDIU EFTIMIE.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cordis-showcase/id6821575918 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [OVIDIU EFTIMIE](https://appshunter.io/developer/1864580808)
- Category: Developer Tools, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-12
- Data updated: 2026-10-19

## What is Cordis Showcase?

Cordis Showcase is an interactive tour of cordis-ios, a Swift port of the cordis plugin framework.

Everything in the app is built from plugins. Each card on the dashboard is put there by a plugin, and it disappears on its own when that plugin stops. Plugins declare the services they need: when a service goes away, everything that depends on it unloads, and when it comes back, they load again. Nothing has to be cleaned up by hand.

A ten-step guided tour lets you see this happen:
• Withdraw a service and watch its consumers wait
• Change a plugin's configuration and see it reload
• Send an invalid configuration and see it rejected
• Add a missing service and watch a waiting plugin load
• Recover a plugin that failed to start
• Run two versions of one service side by side in isolated realms
• Disable a whole group of plugins at once
• Restart a service that holds state
• Reset everything to the defaults in one reconciliation

Beyond the tour you can explore freely:
• Plugins: every plugin with its live state, an on/off switch, a JSON config editor and the list of effects it has installed
• Services: which plugin provides each service, and who uses it
• Timeline: the framework's internal events and logs as they happen

Credits
cordis is created by Shigma and the cordiverse contributors (github.com/cordiverse/cordis). Its design is described in the paper "A Programming Paradigm for Spatiotemporal Composability" by Yifan Shi, Wei Zhang and Tianyi Cui (arXiv:2608.25512). The Swift port and this app are open source at github.com/eovidiu/cordis-ios. cordis-ios is an independent port and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the cordis authors.

The app collects no data and makes no network requests.

## Is Cordis Showcase safe?

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## Is Cordis Showcase legit?

Cordis Showcase has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Cordis Showcase is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-10-12

No release notes.

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