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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…	1	1953	May 25, 2024
Theme Developer Tutorial: 2. Creating a remote theme	0	687	March 18, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 6 - Add acceptance tests testing , plugin-guides , tutorial	32	17364	June 2, 2022
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin plugin-guides , tutorial	32	82615	July 8, 2025
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface	3	598	August 28, 2025
Using Google's 'tachometer' to measure JS performance changes in Discourse code	0	971	October 5, 2023
Set up a multisite development environment dev-install , how-to	0	1994	June 7, 2022
Install plugins in your non-Docker development environment how-to , dev-install	0	3387	October 6, 2021
Install Discourse on Windows for development dev-install , how-to	16	73613	April 22, 2026
Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development dev-install , how-to	84	198175	June 22, 2025
Install Discourse on macOS for development dev-install , how-to	103	114549	April 24, 2026
Install Discourse for development using Docker dev-install , docker , how-to	226	88022	May 22, 2026
Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces	14	1671	September 9, 2025
Developing Discourse using a Dev Container	13	17773	May 28, 2026
Pinning plugin and theme versions for older Discourse installs (d-compat branches)	4	1320	May 27, 2026
Automatically lint and format code before commits how-to , code	1	1515	March 13, 2026
Get started with Theme Creator and the Theme CLI how-to , theme-creator , theme-guides	8	12793	May 7, 2026
Discourse toolkit to render forms	28	1449	December 23, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 2 - Connect to a plugin outlet plugin-guides , tutorial	38	30108	November 23, 2025
Add custom content that only appears on your homepage how-to	10	8115	February 29, 2024
Add localizable strings to themes and theme components how-to , theme-guides	22	5485	August 9, 2024
Structure of themes and theme components reference , theme-guides	0	29289	April 12, 2017
Theme Developer Quick Reference Guide reference , theme-guides	2	9775	June 28, 2021
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 5 - Add an admin interface plugin-guides , tutorial	47	26351	September 24, 2024
(not recommended) Overriding Discourse templates from a Theme or Plugin how-to	11	2655	July 26, 2024
Creating Routes in Discourse and Showing Data ember , tutorial	1	11749	May 25, 2024
Using Plugin Outlet Connectors from a Theme or Plugin how-to , code	12	18648	October 14, 2024
Using the DModal API to render Modal windows (aka popups/dialogs) in Discourse code	1	2065	December 27, 2023
Setup Continuous Integration using GitHub Actions how-to , code	8	1559	March 3, 2025
Write acceptance tests and component tests for Ember code in Discourse testing , ember , tutorial , code	3	4235	February 23, 2024

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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…