Proposal: Expose plugin functionality to plugins so it's easier to discover what plugins could do

[mpetrunic]

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Asset	Old size	New size	Diff	Diff %
Total	0	588 KB	588 KB	-

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Asset	Old size	New size	Diff	Diff %
web3.min.js	0	571 KB	571 KB	-
../lib/commonjs/index.d.ts	0	8.63 KB	8.63 KB	-
../lib/commonjs/accounts.d.ts	0	3.67 KB	3.67 KB	-
../lib/commonjs/types.d.ts	0	2.45 KB	2.45 KB	-
../lib/commonjs/web3.d.ts	0	1.14 KB	1.14 KB	-
../lib/commonjs/abi.d.ts	0	1000 bytes	1000 bytes	-
../lib/commonjs/eth.exports.d.ts	0	280 bytes	280 bytes	-
../lib/commonjs/providers.exports.d.ts	0	148 bytes	148 bytes	-
../lib/commonjs/version.d.ts	0	60 bytes	60 bytes	-

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Merging #6538 (bf9368b) into 4.x (72e9bbd) will increase coverage by 0.09%.
Report is 6 commits behind head on 4.x.
The diff coverage is 71.42%.

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web3-errors	∅ <ø> (∅)
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web3-eth-abi	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-accounts	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-contract	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-ens	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-iban	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-personal	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-net	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-providers-http	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-providers-ipc	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-providers-ws	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-rpc-methods	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-utils	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-validator	∅ <ø> (∅)

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[avkos]

Could you please also fix tests
packages/web3/test/integration/web3-plugin-add-tx.test.ts
and
packages/web3-eth-accounts/test/unit/tx/registerNewTx.test.ts
to use this new method registerNewTransactionType

[Muhammad-Altabba]

Thanks for your contribution.
Just a small comment I think was missed.