# Discourse Bars 🍻 🍸 (a sidebar framework) **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bars-a-sidebar-framework/298216 **Category:** Theme component **Created:** [March 6, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bars-a-sidebar-framework/298216 "2024-03-06T16:17:30Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 22
### Author: ![denvergeeks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/denvergeeks/32/327671_2.png) [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks) #### Post date: [March 7, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bars-a-sidebar-framework/298216/22 "2024-03-07T18:56:08Z")
My sincere apologies if I am being slow on this 🙏 I can see in the [README.md](https://github.com/merefield/discourse-tc-bars/blob/main/README.md) this line… > - Supports setups for each of: discovery, topic, tag, category OR categories. In case it is helpful to others, a search on the term **discovery** provides this helpful reference about “discovery”: > [@November 2023 - refactoring Discovery routes: how will it affect my theme/plugin?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upcoming-refactoring-to-discovery-routes-how-will-it-affect-my-theme-plugin/282816): > > As part of our project to upgrade Discourse to the latest version of Ember, we’ve been working on a significant refactoring of the Discovery (a.k.a. the ‘topic list’) routes. This topic is targeted at theme/plugin developers, and aims to list the kinds of theme/plugin activities which may be affected by the refactoring. Background This refactoring is necessary because modern Ember no longer supports ‘named outlets’ like {{outlet "topics"}}, which we were using extensively on these routes. Ess… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bars-a-sidebar-framework/298216)._