# How to get Discourse forum engine version from a user forum environment (for example from a web browser)

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**Created:** [November 18, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-discourse-forum-engine-version-from-a-user-forum-environment-for-example-from-a-web-browser/209556 "2021-11-18T18:47:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![alven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@alven](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alven)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-discourse-forum-engine-version-from-a-user-forum-environment-for-example-from-a-web-browser/209556/1 "2021-11-18T18:47:09Z")

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Hi!

I read the [Writing an effective bug report](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-write-a-good-bug-report/183671) post.  
I found unusual to report the problems without mentioning the forum engine version which is running on a website.

On this site I found possible way to do it: to open DevTools of a browser, Console tab and to get data from the

```plaintext
globalThis.Discourse.application.APP.version
//'2.8.0.beta8 510219a0daef50056420762f446aac4c88c90ba1'

```

But the same time opened other websites:  
`https://forum.manjaro.org/`  
`https://forum.garudalinux.org/`  
`https://discourse.ardour.org/`  
`https://discourse.omnigroup.com/`  
with Discourse forum engine but I was unable to find the forum version there:

```plaintext
globalThis.Discourse.application
// undefined

```

The questions are:

1. why forum engine version is not required in bug reports? Like it is not matter which it is: to process all as the same one, which obviously not true.
2. why the [https://meta.discourse.org](https://meta.discourse.org) resource have the version and (all?) others do not?
3. how to realize the app version on a Discourse forum website?
4. does the front-end and the back-end parts of the Discourse forum engine are always the same (equals to each other, strictly “linked” together)?

Thanks!

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