Plugin outlets using site customizations not working after 1.6 upgrade

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@Ashwani_K_Goel

Is there any change in this version which affects this functionality?

Yes, connectors on the post stream and on the header are gone.

A tour of how the Widget (Virtual DOM) code in Discourse works

The latest builds of Discourse are much faster at rendering topics thanks to our re-written post stream. I’ve written up our new plugin API but so far haven’t explained how the code all fits together. The purpose of this topic is to allow Discourse developers to understand how the new code works. What’s a Virtual DOM? A Virtual DOM is a data structure that enables browsers to re-render dynamic content very quickly. The technique was pioneered by React but has since been integrated into many ot…