I must be doing something very stupid, but I’m incapable of seeing it. I’m hoping that posting here will make me see it so I can delete this before anyone else knows how stupid I am. “HELLO WORLD” should be rendering on the home page. I see “THIS IS THE HOMEPAGE” in the console. I know it’s firing. But it’s not there. Then I tried adding “Extra item” because I didn’t have any other ideas. It’s not rendering either. I did get errors before I renamed the file to .gjs, so that’s further evidence that it’s paying attention to the file and it’s making something happen. import { apiInitializer } from "discourse/lib/api"; export default apiInitializer("1.8.0", (api) => { // see if we're on the home page api.onPageChange(() => { const router = api.container.lookup("service:router"); const url = router?.currentURL; const isHomePage = url === "/"; api.renderInOutlet("top-notices", Extra item ); if (isHomePage) { console.log("THIS IS THE HOMEPAGE"); api.renderInOutlet("after-header", HELLO WORLD ); } }); });

you should add the router service (within a Component) and set up a getter.

Is it possible the outlets aren’t yet rendered so there is no outlet to attach to? onPageChange is fired on a route change …

That sounds like the kind of stupid thing I’m talking about!! I want this to happen only the home page. But yes! If I move one of those render thingies out of the onPageChange, it renders. So how do I make this happen only if the URL is /? Maybe I make a real component and add a shouldRender() call?

Well I’m hoping this helps! Please confirm once it’s all fired up!

Oh, baby! I really did know what a service was! I really did know what a getter was! Now my text is rendering on the home page and not on another page (and presumably all of the rest of them!).

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 31, 2025, 6:22pm 5

Thanks a zillion! I mostly know what all of those words mean!

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