How do you guys build such amazing plugins with discourse ? I am not even able to integrate a custom field to discourse topic using a custom plugin. Is there any documentation that can help me build an advanced plugin like this? The introduction series to Discourse plugins only touches the plugin o…

The code is the only thing to look at. Everything used by the plugins is defined in Discourse core… or by Rails, or by Ruby itself. It’s open source all the way down, so if you don’t know what add_to_serializer does, search the Discourse codebase for def add_to_serializer, and the learnings shall c…

And how do you debug the discourse application? I am using byebug, but I was looking more into a debugger which can be easily integrated with the text editor like atom or brackets or visual studio code.

Did you read this guide yet? [image] Learn how to start building stuff for Discourse if you're newbie (like myself) Developers There are a few ‘how to start’ guides for working with Discourse already and a wealth of useful info on meta, but I thought it might …

What you want is exactly what I want. I am completely lost as well. I was going to try a work around, but it seems that a plugin is the right way to do this. As there is no documentation, I will have to break the code to figure it out.

Between the “How to start building stuff…” guide and the “Beginner’s guide to creating Discourse plugins” , what exactly are you missing? If you can give us more specific feedback on what you need to get started, we’ll definitely take that into consideration.

For the JavaScript side of things, you want the plugin api [image] A versioned API for client side plugins Development Later today I am going to be merging our new post rendering engine into master. Swapping out Ember/HTMLBars for a virtual-dom based ren…

It seems like you’re asking for the conceptual viewpoint of how to build a plugin over the technical. I can’t say that I see myself as a great example of how to do it the right way, but here’s what I would suggest: Go through @eviltrout ’s guide to building plugins and do every step. No skipping. T…

[image] erlend_sh: If you can give us more specific feedback on what you need to get started, we’ll definitely take that into consideration. Some feedback from a new user: The lack of documentation in some places has been the most frustrating part of using Discourse so far. If there were a w…

[image] j127: I want to override the log out functionality on Discourse (to add a POST request to another URL on-logout) but don’t know where to look Isn’t this already covered by the built in webhooks, in Admin, API, webhooks? We should have an on-user-logout webhook built in if we don’t alr…

Thanks, I didn’t see one for user logout, but that would be useful.

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) December 16, 2017, 12:24am 10

Isn’t this already covered by the built in webhooks, in Admin, API, webhooks? We should have an on-user-logout webhook built in if we don’t already cc @tgxworld

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