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	2034	May 15, 2024
Create and share a color scheme how-to	1	6373	August 1, 2025
Create and share a font theme component how-to , theme-guides	4	6029	August 19, 2025
Add settings to your Discourse theme how-to , theme-guides	6	17243	July 8, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 6 - Add acceptance tests testing , plugin-guides , tutorial	32	17566	June 2, 2022
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 5 - Add an admin interface plugin-guides , tutorial	46	26653	September 24, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 4 - Setup git plugin-guides , tutorial	10	13162	January 30, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin plugin-guides , tutorial	32	83197	July 8, 2025
JavaScript type hinting & validation (typescript)	0	137	February 4, 2026
Theme Developer Tutorial: 6. Using the JS API	3	1016	April 14, 2025
Using Plugin Outlet Connectors from a Theme or Plugin how-to , code	12	18802	October 14, 2024
Theme Developer Tutorial: 7. Wrapping up	0	300	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 1. Introduction	0	1425	March 18, 2025
Change icons globally how-to	26	9873	October 5, 2025
Minimizing Maintenance on Theme Customizations explanation , theme-guides	0	902	April 11, 2023
Theme Developer Quick Reference Guide reference , theme-guides	2	9855	June 28, 2021
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 7 - Publish your plugin plugin-guides , tutorial	4	5809	July 29, 2021
Set up Discourse for development on Fedora Linux dev-install , how-to	13	4590	June 19, 2026
Using the DModal API to render Modal windows (aka popups/dialogs) in Discourse code	0	2118	July 3, 2023
Insert text or images anywhere on your site using CSS pseudo-elements how-to , customization	0	18015	October 11, 2018
Designing for Different Devices (Viewport Size, Touch/Hover, etc.)	14	796	January 25, 2026
Guidelines for CSS classes using BEM	0	305	April 15, 2025
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior	1	643	November 3, 2025
Developer's guide to Markdown extensions markdown , reference , code	1	13592	June 1, 2026
Theme Developer Tutorial: 2. Creating a remote theme	0	769	March 18, 2025
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface	3	648	August 28, 2025
Using Google's 'tachometer' to measure JS performance changes in Discourse code	0	996	October 5, 2023
Set up a multisite development environment dev-install , how-to	0	2039	June 7, 2022
Install plugins in your non-Docker development environment dev-install , how-to	0	3443	October 6, 2021
Install Discourse on Windows for development dev-install , how-to	16	74082	April 22, 2026

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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…