Is there a naming convention for theme component projects, so that they’re easily recognizable as such? When seeing the folder on disk, or the repo on GitHub or the project on GitLab or another code forge, it’d be useful to be able to see at one glance that this is to be used with Discourse it’s …

We don’t enforce any naming conventions… the Discourse team will often prefix themes and components with discourse- but it’s not universal. Beyond the directory name, hopefully the readme will include a little context that it’s for Discourse… otherwise themes and theme-components always have an abo…

I use discourse-tc- to signify a theme component because it’s good practice and handy to distinguish those from themes and plugins.

[תמונה] merefield: because it’s good practice and handy to distinguish those from themes and plugins. I like that, because it’s short-ish, yet informative. What naming convention (if any) do you use for themes and plugins?

Same here discourse-foo for plugins discourse-theme-foo for full themes discourse-tc-foo for theme components

Is there a naming convention for theme component projects?

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) 16 במרץ,‏ 2026,‏ 10:40pm 5

Same here

discourse-foo for plugins
discourse-theme-foo for full themes
discourse-tc-foo for theme components

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Is there a naming convention for theme component projects?

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