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	1450	August 27, 2024
Using the JS API plugin-api , explanation , code	17	11403	November 25, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 2 - Connect to a plugin outlet plugin-guides , tutorial	38	29466	November 23, 2025
Update themes and plugins to support automatic dark mode how-to , auto-dark , theme-guides	10	4019	November 14, 2025
Set up Discourse for development on Fedora Linux dev-install , how-to	10	4167	November 12, 2025
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior	1	420	November 3, 2025
Theme modifiers: A brief introduction theme-guides	20	4367	October 24, 2025
Designing for Different Devices (Viewport Size, Touch/Hover, etc.)	9	300	October 17, 2025
Change icons globally how-to	26	9366	October 5, 2025
Objects type for theme setting theme-guides , how-to	25	1489	September 29, 2025
Customizing the topic list	0	639	February 4, 2025
Discourse toolkit to render forms	27	1042	May 13, 2025
Install Discourse on macOS for development dev-install , how-to	101	112285	September 23, 2025
Replace Discourse's default SVG icons with custom icons in a theme how-to , theme-guides	8	8567	September 17, 2025
Pinning plugin and theme versions for older Discourse installs (.discourse-compatibility)	3	1139	September 15, 2025
Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces	14	1167	September 9, 2025
Install Discourse for development using Docker dev-install , docker , how-to	217	83454	September 8, 2025
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface	3	486	August 28, 2025
Install the Discourse Theme CLI console app to help you build themes how-to , theme-guides	13	30957	August 23, 2025
Create and share a font theme component how-to , theme-guides	4	5799	August 19, 2025
Create and share a color scheme how-to	1	6062	August 1, 2025
Developing Discourse using a Dev Container	6	11411	July 8, 2025
Adding preview screenshots to Discourse themes	2	185	July 16, 2025
Controlling site settings with themes	0	126	July 16, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin plugin-guides , tutorial	32	80934	July 8, 2025
Add settings to your Discourse theme how-to , theme-guides	6	16712	July 8, 2025
Repackaging a markdown-it extension as a Discourse plugin explanation , plugin-guides	1	2315	June 26, 2025
Install Discourse on Windows for development dev-install , how-to	14	71769	June 22, 2025
Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development dev-install , how-to	84	193218	June 22, 2025
Discourse Public Data Dump	1	1030	May 13, 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…