Developer Guides

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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	1785	May 25, 2024
Install Discourse on macOS for development dev-install , how-to	101	113716	September 23, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 6. Using the JS API	3	905	April 14, 2025
Theme modifiers: A brief introduction theme-guides	20	4565	October 24, 2025
Use Discourse Core Variables in your Theme how-to , theme-guides	0	12012	January 9, 2018
Structure of themes and theme components reference , theme-guides	0	29157	April 12, 2017
Add a new provider to discourse-chat-integration how-to , plugin-guides	0	4660	August 16, 2017
Add a new locale from plugin how-to , plugin-guides	1	3362	June 11, 2019
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 6 - Add acceptance tests testing , plugin-guides , tutorial	32	17221	June 2, 2022
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 4 - Setup git plugin-guides , tutorial	10	13007	January 30, 2024
(not recommended) Overriding Discourse templates from a Theme or Plugin how-to	11	2565	July 26, 2024
Adding a new 'managed' authentication method to Discourse explanation	2	3599	November 29, 2023
Using the DModal API to render Modal windows (aka popups/dialogs) in Discourse code	1	2015	December 27, 2023
Developer's guide to Markdown extensions markdown , reference , code	0	13448	July 11, 2017
Set up Discourse for development on Fedora Linux dev-install , how-to	10	4332	November 12, 2025
Set up a local Discourse Development Environment? dev-install , how-to	0	8591	March 11, 2021
Install Discourse for development using Docker dev-install , docker , how-to	222	86510	February 7, 2026
Objects type for theme setting theme-guides , how-to	29	1793	March 18, 2026
Theme Developer Tutorial: 7. Wrapping up	0	236	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 2. Creating a remote theme	0	618	March 18, 2025
Customizing the topic list	0	728	February 4, 2025
Using modifyClass to change core behavior	6	2279	March 4, 2026
Ember object ownership (getOwner, service injections, etc.) code	0	1400	January 19, 2024
Automatically lint and format code before commits how-to , code	1	1424	March 13, 2026
Run Discourse AI evals ai	1	171	December 1, 2025
Discourse toolkit to render forms	28	1268	December 23, 2025
Get started with Theme Creator and the Theme CLI how-to , theme-creator , theme-guides	7	12658	January 27, 2026
Guidelines for CSS classes using BEM	0	247	April 15, 2025
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior	1	539	November 3, 2025
JavaScript type hinting & validation (typescript)	0	82	February 4, 2026

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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…