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…	0	2119	May 15, 2024
Designing for Different Devices (Touch & Hover)	14	981	January 25, 2026
Designing for Responsive Widths (Breakpoints, Viewport & Containers)	0	45	August 4, 2026
Using service objects in Discourse	0	873	October 30, 2024
Set up Discourse for development on Fedora Linux dev-install , how-to	13	4662	June 19, 2026
Install Discourse on Windows for development dev-install , how-to	16	74327	April 22, 2026
Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development dev-install , how-to	83	200932	June 22, 2025
Install Discourse on macOS for development dev-install , how-to	102	116006	April 24, 2026
Install the Discourse Theme CLI console app to help you build themes how-to , theme-guides	16	32114	July 30, 2026
How to run Discourse core, plugin and theme QUnit test suites how-to , code	0	2797	July 26, 2017
Pinning plugin and theme versions for older Discourse installs (d-compat branches)	6	1482	July 17, 2026
Objects type for theme setting how-to , theme-guides	32	2322	April 13, 2026
Add settings to your Discourse theme how-to , theme-guides	6	17350	July 8, 2025
Create and share a color scheme how-to	1	6440	August 1, 2025
Create and share a font theme component how-to , theme-guides	4	6083	August 19, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 6 - Add acceptance tests testing , plugin-guides , tutorial	32	17649	June 2, 2022
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 5 - Add an admin interface plugin-guides , tutorial	46	26882	September 24, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 4 - Setup git plugin-guides , tutorial	10	13225	January 30, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin plugin-guides , tutorial	32	83672	July 8, 2025
JavaScript type hinting & validation (typescript)	0	177	February 4, 2026
Theme Developer Tutorial: 6. Using the JS API	3	1056	April 14, 2025
Using Plugin Outlet Connectors from a Theme or Plugin how-to , code	12	18885	October 14, 2024
Theme Developer Tutorial: 7. Wrapping up	0	317	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 1. Introduction	0	1513	March 18, 2025
Change icons globally how-to	26	9972	October 5, 2025
Minimizing Maintenance on Theme Customizations explanation , theme-guides	0	920	April 11, 2023
Theme Developer Quick Reference Guide reference , theme-guides	2	9923	June 28, 2021
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 7 - Publish your plugin plugin-guides , tutorial	4	5874	July 29, 2021
Using the DModal API to render Modal windows (aka popups/dialogs) in Discourse code	0	2149	July 3, 2023
Insert text or images anywhere on your site using CSS pseudo-elements how-to , customization	0	18052	October 11, 2018

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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…