I got a few questions regarding plugin-outlet, custom-html, appEvents in mount-widget.js and ES6. I’ve included some code snippets, and that’s why this post looks too long. It’s code from Discourse source code, not mine. So, it’s guaranteed that you won’t be reading my (hard-to-read) code. While …

Was it updated? Last time I read: it was a beginners guide on how to create and use my plugin I don’t think that post talks about custom-html Also I’m curious about how ES6 is loaded. You could just point me to the file where _customizations and Ember.TEMPLATES are loaded. Or … just more than on…

To be clear, you are trying to copy how Discourse’s asset pipeline works in another project? What Discourse does is very complicated and specific to our use case. Just as an extreme example, we have our own hand-rolled template compiler for our virtual dom library. You don’t want to get lost in tha…

I see. Just curious where about (like the file names) the “hand-rolled template compiler” and where its output is plugged into. I hope it’s not a hard task to tell me about those file names. Or, I should’ve easily figured it out if I knew how to read code properly :sob:

Code reading help. ES6, plugin-outlet `_connectorCache`, custom-html `_customizations`, appEvents

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 21, 2019, 10:54am 2

Have you read Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin? That’s where I’d start.

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Code reading help. ES6, plugin-outlet `_connectorCache`, custom-html `_customizations`, appEvents

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