Developer Guides

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Developer Guides Index index Documentation about extending Discourse with plugins, themes, and theme components, working with the core code, and using the Discourse API. Introduction Introduction: Introduction to Discourse Development Development…	3	881	August 27, 2024
Discourse toolkit to render forms	20	499	March 27, 2025
Developing Discourse using a Dev Container	3	2959	March 26, 2025
Customizing the topic list	0	256	February 4, 2025
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface	0	203	September 11, 2024
Install Discourse for development using Docker docker , dev-install , how-to	214	76280	March 21, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 3. CSS in Themes	5	52	March 18, 2025
Developing Discourse Themes & Theme Components reference , tutorial , theme-guides	15	102997	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 6. Using the JS API	0	37	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 5. Building and using components	0	24	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 4. Using Outlets to insert and replace content	0	22	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 2. Creating a remote theme	0	33	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 1. Introduction	0	68	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 7. Wrapping up	0	17	March 18, 2025
Add Ember Components to Discourse ember , how-to , code	7	7623	March 17, 2025
Adding metadata and screenshots to a Theme reference , theme-guides	0	1866	May 31, 2019
Structure of themes and theme components reference , theme-guides	0	28169	April 12, 2017
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 3 - Add custom site settings plugin-guides , tutorial	39	22574	March 15, 2025
Split up theme SCSS into multiple files how-to	12	4441	January 18, 2024
Using modifyClass to change core behavior	5	1769	March 10, 2025
Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development dev-install , how-to	78	185888	March 10, 2025
Replace Discourse's default SVG icons with custom icons in a theme how-to , theme-guides	7	8174	March 7, 2025
Setup Continuous Integration using GitHub Actions how-to , code	8	1267	March 3, 2025
Split up theme Javascript into multiple files how-to , theme-guides	5	6269	February 16, 2025
Objects type for theme setting how-to , theme-guides	20	1051	February 8, 2025
Create custom Automations automation , how-to	16	2499	February 7, 2025
Using service objects in Discourse	0	182	October 30, 2024
Introduction to Discourse Development	1	409	February 1, 2025
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior	0	127	January 31, 2025
Use the `navigation_menu` query parameter to preview the sidebar or other options how-to	1	743	January 27, 2025

Developer Guides Index

index

Documentation about extending Discourse with plugins, themes, and theme components, working with the core code, and using the Discourse API. Introduction Introduction: Introduction to Discourse Development Development…