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	2446	May 15, 2024
AppEvents Triggers Reference	0	587	November 26, 2024
The UI kit of shared Discourse components, helpers, and modifiers	0	225	August 31, 2026
JavaScript type hinting & validation (typescript)	0	299	February 4, 2026
Discourse toolkit to render forms	28	2052	December 23, 2025
Using service objects in Discourse	0	987	October 30, 2024
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior	2	855	September 5, 2026
Automatically lint and format code before commits how-to , code	0	1882	November 8, 2019
Drag, resize, and gesture primitives	0	164	August 20, 2026
Theme Developer Tutorial: 1. Introduction	0	1816	March 18, 2025
Customize posts' contents with your own styles css	8	3744	March 17, 2023
Create and share a color scheme how-to	1	6670	August 1, 2025
Change the style of a wiki post wiki-posts , how-to	6	8132	July 28, 2021
Alternative icons reference , theme-guides	28	3408	April 7, 2026
Creating Routes in Discourse and Showing Data ember , tutorial	0	12070	August 18, 2016
Using Google's 'tachometer' to measure JS performance changes in Discourse code	0	1206	October 5, 2023
Ember object ownership (getOwner, service injections, etc.) code	0	1660	January 19, 2024
Change icons globally how-to	26	10635	October 5, 2025
Message Format support for localization translation , reference	0	5411	May 31, 2013
Add custom content that only appears on your homepage how-to	10	8531	February 29, 2024
Create and share a font theme component how-to , theme-guides	4	6331	August 19, 2025
Insert text or images anywhere on your site using CSS pseudo-elements how-to , customization	0	18312	October 11, 2018
Replace Discourse's default SVG icons with custom icons in a theme how-to , theme-guides	10	9516	February 24, 2026
Include assets (e.g. images, fonts) in themes and components how-to , theme-guides	1	16297	August 23, 2024
Add localizable strings to themes and theme components how-to , theme-guides	22	6071	August 9, 2024
Use Discourse Core Variables in your Theme how-to , theme-guides	0	12327	January 9, 2018
Structure of themes and theme components reference , theme-guides	0	29943	April 12, 2017
Private modules and the `-internals` convention	0	59	October 9, 2026
Install the Discourse Theme CLI console app to help you build themes how-to , theme-guides	16	32828	July 30, 2026
Get started with Theme Creator and the Theme CLI how-to , theme-creator , theme-guides	8	13411	May 7, 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…