Developer Guides

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Using Google's 'tachometer' to measure JS performance changes in Discourse code	0	1006	October 5, 2023
Set up a multisite development environment dev-install , how-to	0	2050	June 7, 2022
Install plugins in your non-Docker development environment dev-install , how-to	0	3461	October 6, 2021
Install Discourse on Windows for development dev-install , how-to	16	74204	April 22, 2026
Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development dev-install , how-to	83	200252	June 22, 2025
Install Discourse on macOS for development dev-install , how-to	102	115812	April 24, 2026
Install Discourse for development using Docker docker , dev-install , how-to	226	90750	May 22, 2026
Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces	14	1834	September 9, 2025
Developing Discourse using a Dev Container	13	18677	May 28, 2026
Automatically lint and format code before commits how-to , code	0	1589	November 8, 2019
Get started with Theme Creator and the Theme CLI how-to , theme-creator , theme-guides	8	12956	May 7, 2026
Discourse toolkit to render forms	28	1645	December 23, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 2 - Connect to a plugin outlet plugin-guides , tutorial	38	30334	November 23, 2025
Add custom content that only appears on your homepage how-to	10	8186	February 29, 2024
Add localizable strings to themes and theme components how-to , theme-guides	22	5605	August 9, 2024
Structure of themes and theme components reference , theme-guides	0	29439	April 12, 2017
(not recommended) Overriding Discourse templates from a Theme or Plugin how-to	9	2776	March 7, 2024
Creating Routes in Discourse and Showing Data ember , tutorial	0	11823	August 18, 2016
Setup Continuous Integration using GitHub Actions how-to , code	8	1610	March 3, 2025
Write acceptance tests and component tests for Ember code in Discourse testing , ember , tutorial , code	3	4291	February 23, 2024
Alternative icons reference , theme-guides	28	2779	April 7, 2026
Theme modifiers: A brief introduction theme-guides	19	4800	October 24, 2025
Use Discourse Core Variables in your Theme how-to , theme-guides	0	12122	January 9, 2018
Add a new provider to discourse-chat-integration plugin-guides , how-to	0	4737	August 16, 2017
Add a new locale from plugin plugin-guides , how-to	1	3428	June 11, 2019
Adding a new 'managed' authentication method to Discourse explanation	2	3704	November 29, 2023
Set up a local Discourse Development Environment? dev-install , how-to	0	8870	March 11, 2021
Customizing the topic list	0	812	February 4, 2025
Using modifyClass to change core behavior	6	2466	March 4, 2026
Ember object ownership (getOwner, service injections, etc.) code	0	1450	January 19, 2024