Does Discourse have custom plugin templates, and how do I write custom plugins?

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Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin

Building a plugin in Discourse can be really simple, once you learn a couple of quirks. The goal of this post is to create a skeleton plugin and introduce you to the basics. Your development environment Make sure you have a development environment of Discourse running on your computer. I recommend you use the appropriate setup guide and come back when you’re done. plugin.rb Use GitHub - discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton: Template for Discourse plugins to create a complete discourse p…

You need to have a Discourse development install. For example, Developing Discourse using a Dev Container

After install it, run

rake plugin:create[your-plugin-name]

It will pull discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton: Template for Discourse plugins to generate a plugin with the most modern and recommend starting template.