I used to develop plugins for a legacy forum platform many years ago that used PHP and MySQL. I was really pleased with some of the things I was able to do and so were my members. I’ve never worked with Ruby on Rails before, (with the exception of struggling through the import script process to get…

Great! There are a few useful posts on this. I’ll link you to mine as it references these. How can I make my own Discourse plugins? (Although I would personally recommend VSCode now) One way in is to start helping with supporting an existing plugin by submitting PRs (that’s how I began), start…

I spent a long time learning rails. But lots of stuff happens on the ember/javascript side of things. My advice would be to start there with stuff that you can do in theme components. They are much safer, easier to use, and can do just a whole lot.

What is the best way to start learning Ember.js? Are there any online courses you guys recommend? I tend to learn better with a structured course, than just playing around on my own because it forces me to learn fundamentals.

Read the Ember.js Guides - Guides and Tutorials - Ember Guides Also consider https://guides.rubyonrails.org/

[image] pfaffman: My advice would be to start there with stuff that you can do in theme components. They are much safer, easier to use, and can do just a whole lot. After starting to get into this recently, I agree with Jay @pfaffman . The best place to start is with theme components Some r…

My best recommendation in addition to the great ones already noted in this topic is to read through the many themes/components code on Discourse · GitHub and try to understand what’s going on. Clone them, break them, figure out what’s going on. That’s mostly how I learned along with working on littl…

A good place to start would be to have a look at the GitHub - literatecomputing/feverbee-engagement-theme: Theme component based on expert.feverbee.com and clean it up by deleting all the extra stuff that doesn’t belong in there. And then submit a PR. :slight_smile:

I see what you are doing there, @pfaffman . :grin: That being said, I don’t think you want me cleaning up your code just yet, but I agree that submitting PRs could be a great place to start. First, I need to dig into some of the resources already shared in this thread. My biggest challenge right now…

Can’t blame a guy for trying. :wink: But seriously, that theme does a bunch of stuff that gives you some ideas about what themes can do. Being able to make a whole new topic list is amazing. Cleaning it up (there is tons of code that just doesn’t belong, but when I tried to remove it I broke stuff …

I’d like to start developing for Discourse, where should I begin?

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merefield (Robert) April 22, 2020, 1:53pm 7

Sorry missed this one out I think which has been expanded a lot, plenty of material here to get your teeth into: Developer’s guide to Discourse Themes

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