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…	3	1467	August 27, 2024
Run Discourse AI evals	1	22	December 1, 2025
AppEvents Triggers Reference	0	349	November 26, 2024
Using the JS API plugin-api , explanation , code	17	11421	November 25, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 2 - Connect to a plugin outlet plugin-guides , tutorial	38	29475	November 23, 2025
Update themes and plugins to support automatic dark mode how-to , auto-dark , theme-guides	10	4026	November 14, 2025
Set up Discourse for development on Fedora Linux dev-install , how-to	10	4171	November 12, 2025
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior	1	422	November 3, 2025
Theme modifiers: A brief introduction theme-guides	20	4373	October 24, 2025
Designing for Different Devices (Viewport Size, Touch/Hover, etc.)	9	303	October 17, 2025
Change icons globally how-to	26	9370	October 5, 2025
Objects type for theme setting theme-guides , how-to	25	1492	September 29, 2025
Customizing the topic list	0	641	February 4, 2025
Discourse toolkit to render forms	27	1048	May 13, 2025
Install Discourse on macOS for development dev-install , how-to	101	112338	September 23, 2025
Replace Discourse's default SVG icons with custom icons in a theme how-to , theme-guides	8	8573	September 17, 2025
Pinning plugin and theme versions for older Discourse installs (.discourse-compatibility)	3	1141	September 15, 2025
Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces	14	1178	September 9, 2025
Install Discourse for development using Docker dev-install , docker , how-to	217	83586	September 8, 2025
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface	3	488	August 28, 2025
Install the Discourse Theme CLI console app to help you build themes how-to , theme-guides	13	30980	August 23, 2025
Create and share a font theme component how-to , theme-guides	4	5802	August 19, 2025
Create and share a color scheme how-to	1	6066	August 1, 2025
Developing Discourse using a Dev Container	6	11579	July 8, 2025
Adding preview screenshots to Discourse themes	2	203	July 16, 2025
Controlling site settings with themes	0	126	July 16, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin plugin-guides , tutorial	32	80961	July 8, 2025
Add settings to your Discourse theme how-to , theme-guides	6	16717	July 8, 2025
Repackaging a markdown-it extension as a Discourse plugin explanation , plugin-guides	1	2316	June 26, 2025
Install Discourse on Windows for development dev-install , how-to	14	71809	June 22, 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…