diff --git a/public/app/extensions/index.ts b/public/app/extensions/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d265303a6ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/extensions/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+let components = (require as any).context('.', true, /\.tsx?/);
+components.keys().forEach(key => {
+  console.log('extension component', components(key));
+});
diff --git a/public/app/extensions/test/test.ts b/public/app/extensions/test/test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..be4fd52ed2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/extensions/test/test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+export class Tester {}
+
+console.log('Tester');
diff --git a/public/app/routes/routes.ts b/public/app/routes/routes.ts
index 9aecf53e7bb..aa783c37006 100644
--- a/public/app/routes/routes.ts
+++ b/public/app/routes/routes.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import './dashboard_loaders';
 import './ReactContainer';
+import '../extensions';
 
 import ServerStats from 'app/features/admin/ServerStats';
 import AlertRuleList from 'app/features/alerting/AlertRuleList';