How to transfer data from plugin to app/views templates?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

I think you should read through this series:

Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin

Building a plugin in Discourse can be really simple, once you learn a couple of quirks. The goal of this post is to create a skeleton plugin and introduce you to the basics. Your development environment Make sure you have a development environment of Discourse running on your computer. I recommend you use the appropriate setup guide and come back when you’re done. plugin.rb Use GitHub - discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton: Template for Discourse plugins to create a complete discourse…

Pretty sure it is covered, you want to use the preload store here and then load it up on the client to avoid a double web request.