Hello Team, Am working on a small project where we are customising discourse to land the user directly to “a topic” with lot of client side customisation. User directly land on topic and can just post/reply to the topic thread. Discourse is loaded in to a webview in mobile app. I also removed the o…

[image] dhan-phi: We use minimum spec of 2GB(without docker). Did you not do a Discourse official Standard Installation but instead did a development installation? What you describe sounds like expected performance for a development installation. Did you make your changes in a plugin, or did…

Yeah, I forked. I did not use docker, Customised little bit from server side and mostly client side changes like JS and CSS. The official installation doc was not clear about custom code set up. Could you tell me where can I find the docker setup with custom code, basically I just want to pull the c…

Your custom code should always be built as a plugin, not as a fork of core. I agree, you don’t have a production install. Get a proper development install, make your plugin, and put it on a proper production install.

By saying “Custom code” I mean not touching the core of discourse. Just some CSS tweaks and Js changes to fit our requirement. We just wanted to redirect users (based on some sort of settings) directly to topic discussion screen(like this).

Plugins are for adding new features correct?

It’s at least sort-of the case that if you’re changing just js and CSS, you can probably make all of your changes with Theme Components. If you need to make changes to backend stuff in rails, you’ll need a plugin. I recommend that you start with the Theme Developer link above and see if you can mak…

Custom discourse with limited features

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) July 1, 2021, 9:13am 5

See Developer’s guide to Discourse Themes and Beginner’s Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins Part 1: Creating a basic plugin.

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