Holy crap, thanks so much for the video l've often wondered how to write my own scripts or plugins for AE, this is a fantastic entry to get started! l hope there will be more in-depth and advanced topics discussed in the future!
Thanks for this! Scripting looks a lot more approachable after seeing how similar it is to expressions. The one thing I’m having trouble finding is an Adobe page listing all the commands you can run like window.add and addProperty.
YT comments won't let me paste a URL, but if Google the term "ae-scripting docsforadobe dev" the top result should be a great After Effects Scripting Guide.
Hey! You probably found out by now, but the solution is just to assign your new effect to a variable and then acces its name as myVariableName.name = "The name you want your effect to have".