I’m trying to figure out the best way to register a handlebars helper for my Discourse plugin. I have an ajax call in my initializer that determines whether the currentUser is part of a particular group. If they are, then they get an extra nav item. I wanted to do something like this in my hbs fil…

What would customHelper do? Can’t you just do something like this instead? in your initializer export default { initialize(container) { const user = container.lookup('current-user:main'); Discourse.ajax("/some-url").then(result => user.set("isPartOfParticularGroup", true)); } } and in…

Wow so simple and works perfectly!

Sorry to resurrect this topic, but fits perfectly with my question. Would it be possible to register a helper without creating a plugin? Like from a script on the theme’s HTML head/body section? Thanks in advance!

How to register a helper in Discourse?

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riking (Kane York) September 27, 2020, 7:33am 5

You’d typically do that using a theme component, yes.

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How to register a helper in Discourse?

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