Setting up a solid workflow for custom theme development

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@awesomerobot

Using the built-in editor in Admin > Customize > Themes might be the best way if you can’t get the CLI to work. The CLI was built because there really wasn’t an ideal way to develop themes for Discourse previously, so I’d like to help you get that worked out if possible.

Are you able to install Discourse locally using any of the methods here: Topics tagged dev-install? You can point the Theme CLI at localhost, which might help avoid any of the network issues you were running into.

Have you tried using a Discourse instance that’s not hosted by nodechef? I wonder if there’s a peculiarity with them specifically (I’m going to try an install there and see if I run into any issues).

I’d rather not use the theme editor, it’s too basic and I also need to change the markup (add/remove functionality) which is impossible via the editor. I agree that the CLI is the way to go, that’s why I’m still trying to make it work.

No, I have not tried other hosts. Looking into options currently.

Let me know if you find out anything, I’d appreciate it!