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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	2009	May 15, 2024
Set up Discourse for development on Fedora Linux dev-install , how-to	13	4547	June 19, 2026
Create and share a color scheme how-to	1	6313	August 1, 2025
Create and share a font theme component how-to , theme-guides	4	6000	August 19, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 6 - Add acceptance tests testing , plugin-guides , tutorial	32	17507	June 2, 2022
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 5 - Add an admin interface plugin-guides , tutorial	46	26596	September 24, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 4 - Setup git plugin-guides , tutorial	10	13131	January 30, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin plugin-guides , tutorial	32	82940	July 8, 2025
Using the DModal API to render Modal windows (aka popups/dialogs) in Discourse code	0	2100	July 3, 2023
Insert text or images anywhere on your site using CSS pseudo-elements how-to , customization	0	17993	October 11, 2018
Designing for Different Devices (Viewport Size, Touch/Hover, etc.)	14	764	January 25, 2026
Guidelines for CSS classes using BEM	0	300	April 15, 2025
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior	1	625	November 3, 2025
Developer's guide to Markdown extensions markdown , reference , code	1	13568	June 1, 2026
Theme Developer Tutorial: 2. Creating a remote theme	0	746	March 18, 2025
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface	3	638	August 28, 2025
Using Google's 'tachometer' to measure JS performance changes in Discourse code	0	989	October 5, 2023
Set up a multisite development environment dev-install , how-to	0	2020	June 7, 2022
Install plugins in your non-Docker development environment dev-install , how-to	0	3422	October 6, 2021
Install Discourse on Windows for development dev-install , how-to	16	73882	April 22, 2026
Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development dev-install , how-to	83	198744	June 22, 2025
Install Discourse on macOS for development dev-install , how-to	102	115102	April 24, 2026
Install Discourse for development using Docker docker , dev-install , how-to	226	89163	May 22, 2026
Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces	14	1749	September 9, 2025
Developing Discourse using a Dev Container	13	18136	May 28, 2026
Pinning plugin and theme versions for older Discourse installs (d-compat branches)	4	1353	May 27, 2026
Automatically lint and format code before commits how-to , code	0	1553	November 8, 2019
Get started with Theme Creator and the Theme CLI how-to , theme-creator , theme-guides	8	12854	May 7, 2026
Discourse toolkit to render forms	28	1574	December 23, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 2 - Connect to a plugin outlet plugin-guides , tutorial	38	30202	November 23, 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…