Source Code

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The source code for Vortex is now fully open sourced and available on github.

To make contributions easier it has been split into several parts.
Please note: If you want to build the entire application you only need the main repository, it will include everything else as dependencies or git submodules.
If you just want to work on an extension you only need that one repository.


The main repository is at Nexus-Mods/Vortex

Another important repo is Nexus-Mods/vortex-api. Any extension being developed should include it as a module to get "intellisense" during development.

Basic game support is implemented through extensions. These, rather simple extensions, are bundled in https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/vortex-games

Other features are implemented as extensions which are all kept in separate repositories so you can fork and develop on them individually:

• Support for bsa files
• Support for ba2 files
• Support for arc files (Dragon's Dogma)
• Special handling for GeDoSaTo mods
• Special handling for enb mods
• Special handling for dinput hooks
• Special handling for dazip mods (Dragon Age)
• NMM Import
• MO Import
• "Open in file manager" buttons
• Highlights column for mod page
• Dependencies column for mod page
• Editor for meta data (downloads)
• Gameinfo provider: Steam
• Sanity checks for settings on bethesda games
• Savegame page for bethesda games
• Plugin management for bethesda games
• ModIndex lock feature for bethesda plugins
• Archive Invalidation for bethesda games
• Profile feature for storing game settings per profile
• Feedback dialog
• Theme settings

An extension can be built individually and plugged into an official Vortex release, there is usually no need to build the main application to write an extension.

And finally there are a bunch of libraries that are not Vortex specific but were developed in this context

• FOMOD installer library
• Node.js bindings for loot
• Node.js bindings for bsatk
• Node.js bindings for ba2tk
• Node.js bindings for esptk
• Client library for connecting to a mod meta data server
• Node.js library Performance optimized directory iteration
• Node.js mini dumps for native crashes
• Node.js library to extract version info from executables
• Node.js library to extract icons from executables
• Node.js library for setting advanced file permissions
• Pluggable ini parsing library for Node.js
• Node.js library for connecting to the Nexus API