Brett_Peters is seeking a beginner’s guide to Discourse development, having previously worked with VB and XF. He is specifically interested in the custom theme process and “hello world” add-on examples.
NateDhaliwal and JammyDodger provided helpful resources for getting started, including guides on understanding Discourse, theme development, and plugin creation. JammyDodger shared links to various guides and tutorials on theme creation and suggested exploring the Documentation > Developer Guides section.
Brett_Peters expressed interest in learning about theming add-ons, components, and the code base, which NateDhaliwal identified as Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, and PostgreSQL.
Hello to you and please give me a 101 of Discourse for a Dev if you have some spare time.
I am looking at a new project and honestly have no knowlege of thia platform. Vb and XF were my last project for clients but as a sole GNU/Linux user I finally have some tome for my own prpject and Opensource is the only way for me.
Main points of focus would be the custom theme process, hello world add-on example as well as any known helpers
Happy for all replies
Hi there. If you are new to Discourse, you can check out this guide;
Are you looking at how to make themes and components?
Hello and welcome @Brett_Peters 
We have some great guides in Documentation > Developer Guides that might be worth with having a browse of.
I think a lot of people start with these:
Or if you’re looking for more backend things there’s some plugin guides in there as well.
Yes most defiantly any theming add-on or other components would be great ro get info on. Code base I am also unaware of, Php and CSS ?
Ruby on Rails, Ember.js and PostgreSQL, IIRC.