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title: "Datastore"
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# Datastore

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Sharing data between plugins

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## What's the datastore

Limedocs expose a unique (single instance) datastore shared between all virtual viles. The datastore is a simple read-write key-value object.

## Reading from the datastore

Each virtual file object exposes a `.datastore` object property that you can read.

## Populating the datastore

Populating the datastore is usually done by [Transformation plugins](api/transformation-plugins.md).
The following plugins support populating datastore from data found in files, automatically:

 - `transformer-json` populates the datastore from JSON keys `storeId` and `store`.
 - `transformer-yaml` populates from YAML properties `storeId` and `store`.
 - `transformer-markdown` populates from front-matter keys `storeId` and `store`.