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	1409	August 27, 2024
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior	1	396	November 3, 2025
Theme modifiers: A brief introduction theme-guides	20	4353	October 24, 2025
Designing for Different Devices (Viewport Size, Touch/Hover, etc.)	9	282	October 17, 2025
Using service objects in Discourse	0	355	October 30, 2024
Change icons globally how-to	26	9359	October 5, 2025
Objects type for theme setting theme-guides , how-to	25	1455	September 29, 2025
Customizing the topic list	0	619	February 4, 2025
Discourse toolkit to render forms	27	995	May 13, 2025
Install Discourse on macOS for development dev-install , how-to	101	112084	September 23, 2025
Replace Discourse's default SVG icons with custom icons in a theme how-to , theme-guides	8	8550	September 17, 2025
Pinning plugin and theme versions for older Discourse installs (.discourse-compatibility)	3	1129	September 15, 2025
Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces	14	1130	September 9, 2025
Install Discourse for development using Docker dev-install , docker , how-to	217	82875	September 8, 2025
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface	3	469	August 28, 2025
Install the Discourse Theme CLI console app to help you build themes how-to , theme-guides	13	30854	August 23, 2025
Create and share a font theme component how-to , theme-guides	4	5795	August 19, 2025
Update themes and plugins to support automatic dark mode how-to , auto-dark , theme-guides	9	3979	August 6, 2025
Create and share a color scheme how-to	1	6043	August 1, 2025
Developing Discourse using a Dev Container	6	10857	July 8, 2025
Adding preview screenshots to Discourse themes	2	176	July 16, 2025
Controlling site settings with themes	0	121	July 16, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin plugin-guides , tutorial	32	80805	July 8, 2025
Add settings to your Discourse theme how-to , theme-guides	6	16680	July 8, 2025
Repackaging a markdown-it extension as a Discourse plugin explanation , plugin-guides	1	2307	June 26, 2025
Install Discourse on Windows for development dev-install , how-to	14	71621	June 22, 2025
Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development dev-install , how-to	84	192750	June 22, 2025
Using the JS API plugin-api , explanation , code	14	11290	May 27, 2025
Discourse Public Data Dump	1	1021	May 13, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 6. Using the JS API	3	603	April 14, 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…