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

[sky-winter]

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

[Lhc_fl (Linca)]

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.

[sky-winter]

Can dev containers be used as a development environment for Discourse?

[NateDhaliwal]

Yes, as linked above:

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…

You can also run a dev env in Guthub Codespaces:

Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces

GitHub Codespaces is a very fast way to get started with Discourse development. Their free tier is good for 30 hours per month of a 4-core machine. Getting Started Navigate to the github repository Press the , (comma) key on your keyboard, to open GitHub codespaces Use ‘change options’ to customize the machine. Technically, the 2-core machine will work, but we recommend using at least 4-core for a better experience. [Codespace config] Click “Create Codespace” Wait for the contai…

[sky-winter]

Using GitHub, the default shortcuts are not working. Where else can I operate?

[NateDhaliwal]

Perhaps try selecting the terminal input and then pressing the keys?

If the shortcut keys still aren’t working, I think you may have to run the commands here:

.vscode/tasks.json.sample