I’m looking to get a topic’s category id to use in javascript. Since this info is already being pulled to grab the category tag in each topic for handlebars, I was wondering if I could use that somehow? A likely helpful piece of code could be this: Discourse.TopicRoute.on("setupTopicController", f…

Hook for a topic's category id?

joebuhlig (Joe Buhlig) February 24, 2016, 10:34pm 5

That’s how I’m doing it here:

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