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Hi,

Coming from developing on joomla/wordpress I am curious over discourse backend file modification functionning through docker.
I have read the documentation on how to create a plugin(How can I make my own Discourse plugins? - #2 by merefield), but I don’t want to do that yet, I just want to be able to test code live

On a non docker MVC installation, doing a modification on a file via ftp, it was instantly reflected and while with docker I understand the need to rebuild the app to apply permanent modification, what if you want to test things live?

Live test code modifications don’t seem to work :

For example, I want to disable searches for anonymous users so I edited :
/var/www/discourse/app/controllers/search_controller.rb by adding “if current_user.present?” after “def show” with an end at the bottom of the function.

I was surprised that this does not have any effect on front end, and even renaming the conrolller to search_controllerold would not have any effect on the searches.

But somehow, renaming an image in /var/www/discourse/public/images# would hide the image on front-end !

Can anyone please tell me how things work here, is there another cached version of the system more than just the app that starts from its image?

Thank you

Ok, I found that code gets modified if I modify the files in ./javascripts/discourse/node_modules/.embroider/rewritten-app/
It feels better now

That looks more than an anti-pattern.

That will likely get replaced with every build.

Look at the material in Documentation > Developer Guides and the countless real open source examples to see how to modify the front end via Theme component and both the front and back via Plugin

Thank you for the share ! I will check this and maybe get involved into it more seriously at some point, for the moment I just wanted to test live modifications and don’t get why they don’t show up in front end as easy as it was with an ftp on joomla/wordpress even though I am inside the app.