Discourse development through docker or other

[david (David Taylor)]

Developing plugins against a production site will be a very tedious process. I’d recommend you look at setting up a local (or cloud) development environment. We have a few guides over here:

Developing Discourse using a Dev Container

Dev Containers is an open standard for configuring a development environment inside a container. This almost entirely eliminates the need to install/configure Discourse-specific tools/dependencies on your local machine, and makes it very easy to keep up-to-date as Discourse evolves over time. Dev Containers can be used in a number of different IDEs, or directly using their reference CLI. This guide will describe the setup process for VSCode. Getting started Download and install VSCode Ins…