# How to test themes or theme components?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-test-themes-or-theme-components/142788>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [February 27, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-test-themes-or-theme-components/142788 "2020-02-27T15:04:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 9:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-test-themes-or-theme-components/142788/10 "2020-03-02T09:33:42Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> we could ship some of the basics in the discourse-theme gem to set up local testing using ember cli

Running theme tests would require a full installation of Discourse though, right? There are so many interdependencies I don’t think we could test themes independently 🤔

Maybe the theme-cli could have some logic to pull the discourse\_dev docker image and run qunit tests inside that?

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