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	1381	August 27, 2024
Theme modifiers: A brief introduction theme-guides	20	4325	October 24, 2025
Designing for Different Devices (Viewport Size, Touch/Hover, etc.)	9	262	October 17, 2025
Using service objects in Discourse	0	348	October 30, 2024
Change icons globally how-to	26	9339	October 5, 2025
Objects type for theme setting theme-guides , how-to	25	1419	September 29, 2025
Customizing the topic list	0	605	February 4, 2025
Discourse toolkit to render forms	27	929	May 13, 2025
Install Discourse on macOS for development dev-install , how-to	101	111990	September 23, 2025
Replace Discourse's default SVG icons with custom icons in a theme how-to , theme-guides	8	8527	September 17, 2025
Pinning plugin and theme versions for older Discourse installs (.discourse-compatibility)	3	1119	September 15, 2025
Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces	14	1095	September 9, 2025
Install Discourse for development using Docker dev-install , docker , how-to	217	82541	September 8, 2025
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface	3	450	August 28, 2025
Install the Discourse Theme CLI console app to help you build themes how-to , theme-guides	13	30793	August 23, 2025
Create and share a font theme component how-to , theme-guides	4	5787	August 19, 2025
Update themes and plugins to support automatic dark mode how-to , auto-dark , theme-guides	9	3962	August 6, 2025
Create and share a color scheme how-to	1	6027	August 1, 2025
Developing Discourse using a Dev Container	6	10557	July 8, 2025
Adding preview screenshots to Discourse themes	2	172	July 16, 2025
Controlling site settings with themes	0	112	July 16, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin plugin-guides , tutorial	32	80721	July 8, 2025
Add settings to your Discourse theme how-to , theme-guides	6	16658	July 8, 2025
Repackaging a markdown-it extension as a Discourse plugin explanation , plugin-guides	1	2302	June 26, 2025
Install Discourse on Windows for development dev-install , how-to	14	71515	June 22, 2025
Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development dev-install , how-to	84	192470	June 22, 2025
Using the JS API plugin-api , explanation , code	14	11259	May 27, 2025
Discourse Public Data Dump	1	1011	May 13, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 6. Using the JS API	3	585	April 14, 2025
Guidelines for CSS classes using BEM	0	151	April 15, 2025

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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…