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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…	1	1944	May 25, 2024
Developing Discourse using a Dev Container	13	17734	May 28, 2026
Pinning plugin and theme versions for older Discourse installs (d-compat branches)	4	1319	May 27, 2026
Install Discourse for development using Docker dev-install , docker , how-to	226	87957	May 22, 2026
Automatically lint and format code before commits how-to , code	1	1512	March 13, 2026
Get started with Theme Creator and the Theme CLI how-to , theme-creator , theme-guides	8	12786	May 7, 2026
Discourse toolkit to render forms	28	1445	December 23, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 2 - Connect to a plugin outlet plugin-guides , tutorial	38	30103	November 23, 2025
Add custom content that only appears on your homepage how-to	10	8112	February 29, 2024
Add localizable strings to themes and theme components how-to , theme-guides	22	5483	August 9, 2024
Structure of themes and theme components reference , theme-guides	0	29281	April 12, 2017
Theme Developer Quick Reference Guide reference , theme-guides	2	9772	June 28, 2021
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 5 - Add an admin interface plugin-guides , tutorial	47	26342	September 24, 2024
(not recommended) Overriding Discourse templates from a Theme or Plugin how-to	11	2641	July 26, 2024
Creating Routes in Discourse and Showing Data ember , tutorial	1	11746	May 25, 2024
Using Plugin Outlet Connectors from a Theme or Plugin how-to , code	12	18638	October 14, 2024
Using the DModal API to render Modal windows (aka popups/dialogs) in Discourse code	1	2063	December 27, 2023
Setup Continuous Integration using GitHub Actions how-to , code	8	1558	March 3, 2025
Write acceptance tests and component tests for Ember code in Discourse testing , ember , tutorial , code	3	4234	February 23, 2024
Install Discourse on macOS for development dev-install , how-to	103	114492	April 24, 2026
Install Discourse on Windows for development dev-install , how-to	16	73595	April 22, 2026
Objects type for theme setting theme-guides , how-to	32	1966	April 13, 2026
Alternative icons theme-guides , reference	28	2521	April 7, 2026
Using service objects in Discourse	0	625	October 30, 2024
Theme Developer Tutorial: 6. Using the JS API	3	958	April 14, 2025
Theme modifiers: A brief introduction theme-guides	20	4676	October 24, 2025
Use Discourse Core Variables in your Theme how-to , theme-guides	0	12058	January 9, 2018
Add a new provider to discourse-chat-integration how-to , plugin-guides	0	4703	August 16, 2017
Add a new locale from plugin how-to , plugin-guides	1	3392	June 11, 2019
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 6 - Add acceptance tests testing , plugin-guides , tutorial	32	17341	June 2, 2022

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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…