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…	0	2476	May 15, 2024
AppEvents Triggers Reference	0	604	November 26, 2024
Discourse toolkit to render forms	28	2146	December 23, 2025
Objects type for theme setting how-to , theme-guides	32	2822	April 13, 2026
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 6 - Add acceptance tests testing , plugin-guides , tutorial	32	18301	June 2, 2022
How to run Discourse core, plugin and theme QUnit test suites how-to , code	0	2970	July 26, 2017
Repackaging a markdown-it extension as a Discourse plugin plugin-guides , explanation	0	2605	April 5, 2018
Developing Discourse using a Dev Container	13	20142	May 28, 2026
JavaScript type hinting & validation (typescript)	0	347	February 4, 2026
The UI kit of shared Discourse components, helpers, and modifiers	0	256	August 31, 2026
Using service objects in Discourse	0	1017	October 30, 2024
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior	2	936	September 5, 2026
Automatically lint and format code before commits how-to , code	0	1931	November 8, 2019
Drag, resize, and gesture primitives	0	170	August 20, 2026
Theme Developer Tutorial: 1. Introduction	0	1879	March 18, 2025
Customize posts' contents with your own styles css	8	3806	March 17, 2023
Create and share a color scheme how-to	1	6722	August 1, 2025
Change the style of a wiki post wiki-posts , how-to	6	8178	July 28, 2021
Alternative icons reference , theme-guides	28	3486	April 7, 2026
Creating Routes in Discourse and Showing Data ember , tutorial	0	12131	August 18, 2016
Using Google's 'tachometer' to measure JS performance changes in Discourse code	0	1220	October 5, 2023
Ember object ownership (getOwner, service injections, etc.) code	0	1683	January 19, 2024
Change icons globally how-to	26	10751	October 5, 2025
Message Format support for localization translation , reference	0	5439	May 31, 2013
Add custom content that only appears on your homepage how-to	10	8590	February 29, 2024
Create and share a font theme component how-to , theme-guides	4	6386	August 19, 2025
Insert text or images anywhere on your site using CSS pseudo-elements how-to , customization	0	18343	October 11, 2018
Replace Discourse's default SVG icons with custom icons in a theme how-to , theme-guides	10	9575	February 24, 2026
Include assets (e.g. images, fonts) in themes and components how-to , theme-guides	1	16376	August 23, 2024
Add localizable strings to themes and theme components how-to , theme-guides	22	6199	August 9, 2024

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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…