Over the last few months, we’ve been working on a new build system for plugin JavaScript code. This will bring plugins up-to-date with the changes we made to the theme build system back in July 2025, which lean on more modern browser technologies and JS build tooling. This change is largely backwar…

Introducing a new build system for plugins

david (David Taylor) March 19, 2026, 6:55pm 2

The new compiler is now enabled by default in the latest version of Discourse

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