diff --git a/packages/cli/src/plugins/constants.js b/packages/cli/src/plugins/constants.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 37d0748979..0000000000
--- a/packages/cli/src/plugins/constants.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-exports.PluginTypes = {
-  COMPONENT: "component",
-  DATASOURCE: "datasource",
-}
-
-exports.PLUGIN_TYPES_ARR = Object.values(exports.PluginTypes)
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/plugins/index.js b/packages/cli/src/plugins/index.js
index 643406bc4d..714187df56 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/plugins/index.js
+++ b/packages/cli/src/plugins/index.js
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ const { CommandWords } = require("../constants")
 const { getSkeleton, fleshOutSkeleton } = require("./skeleton")
 const questions = require("../questions")
 const fs = require("fs")
-const { PLUGIN_TYPES_ARR } = require("./constants")
-const { validate } = require("./validate")
+const { PLUGIN_TYPE_ARR } = require("@budibase/types")
+const { validate } = require("@budibase/backend-core/plugins")
 const { runPkgCommand } = require("../exec")
 const { join } = require("path")
 const { success, error, info } = require("../utils")
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ function checkInPlugin() {
 
 async function init(opts) {
   const type = opts["init"] || opts
-  if (!type || !PLUGIN_TYPES_ARR.includes(type)) {
+  if (!type || !PLUGIN_TYPE_ARR.includes(type)) {
     console.log(
       error(
         "Please provide a type to init, either 'component' or 'datasource'."
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/plugins/validate.js b/packages/cli/src/plugins/validate.js
deleted file mode 100644
index a6b4555cbd..0000000000
--- a/packages/cli/src/plugins/validate.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-const { PluginTypes } = require("./constants")
-const { DatasourceFieldType, QueryType } = require("@budibase/types")
-const joi = require("joi")
-
-const DATASOURCE_TYPES = [
-  "Relational",
-  "Non-relational",
-  "Spreadsheet",
-  "Object store",
-  "Graph",
-  "API",
-]
-
-function runJoi(validator, schema) {
-  const { error } = validator.validate(schema)
-  if (error) {
-    throw error
-  }
-}
-
-function validateComponent(schema) {
-  const validator = joi.object({
-    type: joi.string().allow("component").required(),
-    metadata: joi.object().unknown(true).required(),
-    hash: joi.string().optional(),
-    version: joi.string().optional(),
-    schema: joi
-      .object({
-        name: joi.string().required(),
-        settings: joi.array().items(joi.object().unknown(true)).required(),
-      })
-      .unknown(true),
-  })
-  runJoi(validator, schema)
-}
-
-function validateDatasource(schema) {
-  const fieldValidator = joi.object({
-    type: joi
-      .string()
-      .allow(...Object.values(DatasourceFieldType))
-      .required(),
-    required: joi.boolean().required(),
-    default: joi.any(),
-    display: joi.string(),
-  })
-
-  const queryValidator = joi
-    .object({
-      type: joi.string().allow(...Object.values(QueryType)),
-      fields: joi.object().pattern(joi.string(), fieldValidator),
-    })
-    .required()
-
-  const validator = joi.object({
-    type: joi.string().allow("datasource").required(),
-    metadata: joi.object().unknown(true).required(),
-    hash: joi.string().optional(),
-    version: joi.string().optional(),
-    schema: joi.object({
-      docs: joi.string(),
-      friendlyName: joi.string().required(),
-      type: joi.string().allow(...DATASOURCE_TYPES),
-      description: joi.string().required(),
-      datasource: joi.object().pattern(joi.string(), fieldValidator).required(),
-      query: joi
-        .object({
-          create: queryValidator,
-          read: queryValidator,
-          update: queryValidator,
-          delete: queryValidator,
-        })
-        .unknown(true)
-        .required(),
-    }),
-  })
-  runJoi(validator, schema)
-}
-
-exports.validate = schema => {
-  switch (schema.type) {
-    case PluginTypes.COMPONENT:
-      validateComponent(schema)
-      break
-    case PluginTypes.DATASOURCE:
-      validateDatasource(schema)
-      break
-    default:
-      throw new Error(`Unknown plugin type - check schema.json: ${schema.type}`)
-  }
-}
diff --git a/packages/types/src/documents/plugin/index.ts b/packages/types/src/documents/plugin/index.ts
index 8133e91523..2d7e480882 100644
--- a/packages/types/src/documents/plugin/index.ts
+++ b/packages/types/src/documents/plugin/index.ts
@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ export interface FileType {
   path: string
   name: string
 }
+
+export const PLUGIN_TYPE_ARR = Object.values(exports.PluginType)
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