Hi everyone, I’ve tried to customize our discourse for about a month. Then I’d like to ask why mixes widget and handlebars together? I think that makes code more complicated and hard to maintain. For an example, I want to move Create Topic button to header, then I just realized the button is created in hbs but header is in widget. I really want to know the reason why you want to combine different things together. I know for performance issue widget is a good tool, but don’t you think that is harder to trace and revise? And there is another question: Does anyone know how to trigger event in widget from ember controller? I’ve been stuck on the confusing architecture for a while..

[image] Chong_An_Chen: why mixes widget and handlebars together? For performance reasons. [image] Chong_An_Chen: I think that makes code more complicated and hard to maintain. It does, but it’s a tradeoff we are ok to make for our hot paths.

thank you for replying quickly, Do you know how to interact with widget from ember controller? I’ve tried A tour of how the Widget (Virtual DOM) code in Discourse works - #57 by eviltrout, but it doesn’t work …

My advice here would be to look at existing plugins like polls plugin etc. There is a large list at: GitHub - discourse/all-the-plugins · GitHub

Why mixes widget and handlebars?

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zogstrip December 22, 2018, 10:49am 2

For performance reasons.

It does, but it’s a tradeoff we are ok to make for our hot paths.

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