For a week now I’ve tried to setup a custom route on my forum using a plugin. The route should be publicly accessible by anyone. I want the plugin to simply display HTML from a handlebar template at the specified route. I can’t get the template to render.
I’ve researched how to develop plugins for Discourse and can’t find any substantial documentation. Anytime someone ask a question About developing plugins the response is a link to a “guide” on developing an admin plugin that shows a purple tentacle. Anytime there’s a question about a template not showing we are simply referred to embers documentation on routers.
That guide is ok but there’s magic happening in the background that’s not explained so that we can take the information and run with it. What if we want to display a public route? How is the plugin.rb file consumed by discourse? What other discourse specific code/statements can I use in the plugin.rb file like “add_admin_route” to add routes to my application? Is there a certain file structure we have to use so the routes resolve?
Basically, all the developers building complex plugins, where are they looking at documentation to do so? I’m an experienced developer and simply adding a public route to my forum and rendering a template at that route is complicated given the current available guides/info on building plugins.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks! 
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