# Accessing the api from a component
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-the-api-from-a-component/271311
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [July 11, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-the-api-from-a-component/271311 "2023-07-11T22:41:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@pipkin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pipkin)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-the-api-from-a-component/271311/1 "2023-07-11T22:41:35Z")
I’m dabbling with Discourse themes but am not a web/Javascript developer. Looking at some third-party theme components I’ve got this question.
In [discourse-header-submenus/javascripts/discourse/connectors/above-site-header/header-submenus.js](https://discourse-header-submenus), there’s this code:
```javascript
export default {
setupComponent() {
// some code here
},
};
```
There are no imports at the top of the file.
If I understand (`strict`) JavaScript correctly, the only context the code within `setupComponent() ` will have access to are the attributes of the object it is evaluated on.
When I look at this context using `console.log(this)` within the `setupComponent()` function, it appears I have no access to the very handy `api` object.
That’s a pity!
Also, I wouldn’t know how to `import` it correctly since the official wrapper code for using api-functions is versioned and looks like this:
```javascript
import { apiInitializer } from "discourse/lib/api";
export default apiInitializer("0.12.3", api => {
// code that uses the api here
});
```
How could I access the `api` object from within `setComponent()`? Or am I missing something fundamental here?
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### Author:  [@pipkin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pipkin)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-the-api-from-a-component/271311/2 "2023-07-13T19:26:18Z")
Got it, it’s done like this:
```js
import { withPluginApi } from "discourse/lib/plugin-api";
export default {
setupComponent() {
withPluginApi("0.12.3", api => {
console.log(api.getCurrentUser());
});
},
};
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-the-api-from-a-component/271311/3 "2023-08-12T19:26:26Z")
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