Customize Tag Search

[merefield (Robert)]

Take a look at:

A tour of how the Widget (Virtual DOM) code in Discourse works

This is out of date. See Widgets, the Widget API and their roadmap? The latest builds of Discourse are much faster at rendering topics thanks to our re-written post stream. I’ve written up our new plugin API but so far haven’t explained how the code all fits together. The purpose of this topic is to allow Discourse developers to understand how the new code works. What’s a Virtual DOM? A Virtual DOM is a data structure that enables browsers to re-render dynamic content very quickly. The techniq…

And some existing similar efforts:

🏷️ Bars Tag List Component

[cover] Overview The Tag List Widget allows you to display tags from Discourse in a sidebar using my Bars! or the Right Sidebar Blocks Theme Components. Quick Links Get the code use tag-list-component for component name in Bars! Settings The widget allows for some configurability with settings such as: Hiding specific tags Changing display styles (row or column) Showing c…

https://github.com/merefield/discourse-tc-tag-cloud