where do I start? what types of programming should i learn? it is difficult?
Lilly
May 14, 2023, 2:48am
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without asking you to be more specific, these are a good start.
Discourse Themes and Theme Components can be used to customize the look, feel and functionality of Discourse’s frontend. This section of the developer guides aims to provide all the reference materials you need to develop simple themes for a single site, right up to complex open-source theme components.
This introduction aims to provide a map of all the tools and APIs for theme development. If you prefer a step-by-step tutorial for theme development, jump straight to:
This is a crash course in Discourse theme basics. The target audience is everyone who is not familiar with Discourse themes. If you’ve already used Discourse theme / theme components, this guide is probably not something you need to read.
I’ve only just started but here’s my ‘starter for 10’ to get you going:
Read:
these
this
Try and read the code on the simplest, but popular plugins and see if you can understand what they are doing (this is not always easy, especially with the complexity of dealing with multiple files and the sometimes brutal functional brevity of javasctipt, but persevere)
You need to learn:
Lots of Javascript (look no further than @mpj ’s Fun Fun Function excellent & fun (!) videos (thanks man!))
Lots of …
Lilly
May 14, 2023, 2:55am
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Discourse style guide (best to use the one from your forum though): https://meta.discourse.org/styleguide/
CSS reference:
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in HTML or XML (including XML dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML). CSS describes how elements should be rendered on screen, on paper, in...
and last but not least - Ember JS
also, probably good to get familiar with GitHub and also GitHub: Discourse
https://github.com/discourse/discourse
thank you so muchhhhhhhhhhhhh