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	1392	August 27, 2024
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior	1	389	November 3, 2025
Theme modifiers: A brief introduction theme-guides	20	4344	October 24, 2025
Designing for Different Devices (Viewport Size, Touch/Hover, etc.)	9	272	October 17, 2025
Using service objects in Discourse	0	351	October 30, 2024
Change icons globally how-to	26	9350	October 5, 2025
Objects type for theme setting theme-guides , how-to	25	1445	September 29, 2025
Customizing the topic list	0	611	February 4, 2025
Discourse toolkit to render forms	27	965	May 13, 2025
Install Discourse on macOS for development dev-install , how-to	101	112031	September 23, 2025
Replace Discourse's default SVG icons with custom icons in a theme how-to , theme-guides	8	8540	September 17, 2025
Pinning plugin and theme versions for older Discourse installs (.discourse-compatibility)	3	1123	September 15, 2025
Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces	14	1108	September 9, 2025
Install Discourse for development using Docker dev-install , docker , how-to	217	82699	September 8, 2025
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface	3	461	August 28, 2025
Install the Discourse Theme CLI console app to help you build themes how-to , theme-guides	13	30820	August 23, 2025
Create and share a font theme component how-to , theme-guides	4	5791	August 19, 2025
Update themes and plugins to support automatic dark mode how-to , auto-dark , theme-guides	9	3972	August 6, 2025
Create and share a color scheme how-to	1	6034	August 1, 2025
Developing Discourse using a Dev Container	6	10711	July 8, 2025
Adding preview screenshots to Discourse themes	2	174	July 16, 2025
Controlling site settings with themes	0	118	July 16, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin plugin-guides , tutorial	32	80759	July 8, 2025
Add settings to your Discourse theme how-to , theme-guides	6	16668	July 8, 2025
Repackaging a markdown-it extension as a Discourse plugin explanation , plugin-guides	1	2303	June 26, 2025
Install Discourse on Windows for development dev-install , how-to	14	71575	June 22, 2025
Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development dev-install , how-to	84	192613	June 22, 2025
Using the JS API plugin-api , explanation , code	14	11274	May 27, 2025
Discourse Public Data Dump	1	1013	May 13, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 6. Using the JS API	3	594	April 14, 2025

Developer Guides Index

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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…