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 backwards-compatible. Most plugin authors won’t need to do anything. :tada: Benefits As well as the behind-the-scenes modernization, this change will bring a number of functional benefits to Discourse developers & hosters: Plugin assets are heavily cached, and are keyed on a per-plugin basis. This means that restarting your server in development will not have to rebuild all plugins from scratch. We can start to include precompiled code for popular plugins in our existing asset bundles. During a rebuild, only changed/new plugins will need to be built. This should be especially useful for resource-constrained machines Plugin code will be transpiled to a native ES module. This brings much simpler syntax, faster execution in the browser, and unlocks future use of things like import() for bundle-splitting in future. Testing / Timeline We have been testing this system internally for some time, and have verified it’s functionality on hundreds of official plugins. Meta has been running with the new system for weeks. If you’d like to try it out yourself, you can set the ROLLUP_PLUGIN_COMPILER=1 environment variable. We plan to change the default very soon. There will be a brief period where the new system can be disabled using ROLLUP_PLUGIN_COMPILER=0, in case of any surprises, but we intend to keep the transition period to a minimum. Possible issues with complex plugins For more complex plugins, there are a few things which the new system is more strict about: Importing admin modules from non-admin code will now raise an exception. This has always been recommended against, and would cause surprising errors. Now it is detected & blocked more deliberately. If you run into this problem, you should consider whether your plugin code would be better located in the admin-js directory (admin/assets/javascripts/...). If you really do need to conditionally import admin modules, then you should use core’s optionalRequire helper to achieve that. Cross-plugin imports are still supported. However, similar to the admin modules, importing modules from a plugin which is not installed/enabled will now raise a much more obvious error. If the cross-plugin dependency is intended to be optional, then you should use core’s optionalRequire helper Subtle timing changes can cause issues in rare cases. Now that plugin code is being compiled to native ES modules, anything in the module scope is being run eagerly. If you had any unusual logic in module scope, it may need to be moved into the runtime code (e.g. inside a class constructor, or similar) If you run into any of these issues, and need a hand resolving them, don’t hesitate to post below. CORS / Access-Control-Allow-Origin Errors If you experience CORS errors after the update, and you use a CDN, then you should run a full CLI rebuild (./launcher rebuild app) to pull in this change to the NGINX configuration. If you use S3 (or S3 compatible) storage for assets, then you need to configure your CDN to add the Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * response header to all assets.

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

I think I have an issue with my plugin and this change: [image] Plugin "Duplicate export" error after Discourse update Development Updating to 2026.3.0-latest has broken my plugin again. Can anyone help explain what is wrong? I see this error in the F12 console in Chrome: app.js:73 Failed to load plugin discourse-directoryopus from https://resource.dopus.com/assets/js/plugins/discourse-directoryopus_main-iafcdugp.digested.js Error: [PLUGIN discourse-directoryopus] Compile error: RollupError: discourse/plugins/discourse-directoryopus/virtual:entrypoint:main (60:12): Duplicate export "discourse$templates$connectors$user__c…

Thanks for the report! Looking into it now :eyes: Edit: fixed

For anyone interested, I’m going to be talking about our new plugin build system at today’s Ember Europe meetup - 2026-03-26T18:00:00Z (UTC). It’s a fully remote event - all welcome! Q1 2026 Event – fully remote, Do., 26. März 2026, 18:45 | Meetup Finde Meetup-Events, damit du mehr von dem machen kannst, was dir wichtig ist. Oder erstelle deine eigene Gruppe und treffe Leute in deiner Nähe, die deine Interessen teilen.

Présentation d'un nouveau système de build pour les plugins

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LeoDavidson (Leo Davidson) Mars 20, 2026, 3:19 3

Je pense avoir un problème avec mon plugin et ce changement :

Sujet		Réponses	Vues
Plugin "Duplicate export" error after Discourse update Development plugin-api	3	221	Mars 20, 2026
FIX: Compile missing rollup plugin bundles on demand in development Bug	6	202	Mars 20, 2026
All plugins not functioning due to CORS error after recent upgrade Self-hosting cdn	22	1322	Avril 10, 2026
Introducing a new JS build system for Discourse core Development dev-news	2	365	Juin 12, 2026
Introducing pre-compiled JS assets for self-hosters Announcements	29	1827	Novembre 27, 2025

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