Render a post above the discovery-list-container-top Outlet

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I’m a noob at this sorry

I used ask discourse to ask:

in a theme i want to render the first post from two topics above the topic list in the discovery-list-container-top Outlet

it gave me several versions which to my eyes looked like it should work. All are throwing an error in the preview. I ask discourse:

how would I put the sample code in the JS tab instead of files?

it gave me this version

import { apiInitializer } from "discourse/lib/api";
import Component from "@glimmer/component";
import { tracked } from "@glimmer/tracking";

class FirstPosts extends Component {
  @tracked posts = [];

  constructor() {
    super(...arguments);
    this.loadPosts();
  }

  async loadPosts() {
    let topicIds = [123, 456]; // change to your topic IDs
    let posts = [];
    for (let id of topicIds) {
      let res = await fetch(`/t/${id}.json`);
      let data = await res.json();
      if (data.post_stream && data.post_stream.posts.length > 0) {
        posts.push(data.post_stream.posts[0]);
      }
    }
    this.posts = posts;
  }

  static template = <template>
    {{#each this.posts as |post|}}
      <div class="first-post-preview">
        <h4>{{post.topic_title}}</h4>
        {{{post.cooked}}}
      </div>
    {{/each}}
  </template>;
}

export default apiInitializer("0.11.1", api => {
  api.renderInOutlet("discovery-list-container-top", FirstPosts);
});

and when I pasted the error code into ask discourse it gave me this version

import { apiInitializer } from "discourse/lib/api";

// Global data store (hacky, but works for the JS tab)
window.firstPostsData = [];

fetch("/t/123.json")
  .then(r => r.json())
  .then(data => window.firstPostsData.push(data.post_stream.posts[0]));

fetch("/t/456.json")
  .then(r => r.json())
  .then(data => window.firstPostsData.push(data.post_stream.posts[0]));

export default apiInitializer(api => {
  api.renderInOutlet("discovery-list-container-top", 
    <template>
      {{#each (theme-prefix "firstPostsData" window=true) as |post|}}
        <div class="first-post-preview">
          <h4>{{post.topic_title}}</h4>
          {{{post.cooked}}}
        </div>
      {{/each}}
    </template>
  );
});

Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

the error in the console was:

Compile error: SyntaxError: /theme-4/discourse/api-initializers/theme-initializer.gjs:

this is what showed in the preview

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Thank you

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I’ve tweaked it and this seems to work:

import Component from "@glimmer/component";
import { tracked } from "@glimmer/tracking";
import { htmlSafe } from "@ember/template";
import { ajax } from "discourse/lib/ajax";
import { apiInitializer } from "discourse/lib/api";

class FirstPosts extends Component {
  @tracked posts = [];

  constructor() {
    super(...arguments);
    this.loadPosts();
  }

  async loadPosts() {
    let topicIds = [123, 1807]; // change to your topic IDs
    let posts = [];
    for (constid of topicIds) {
      const data = await ajax(`/t/${id}.json`);
      if (data.post_stream && data.post_stream.posts.length > 0) {
        posts.push(data.post_stream.posts[0]);
      }
    }
    this.posts = posts;
  }

  <template>
    {{#each this.posts as |post|}}
      <div class="first-post-preview">
        <h4>{{post.topic_title}}</h4>
        {{htmlSafe post.cooked}}
      </div>
    {{/each}}
  </template>;
}

export default apiInitializer((api) => {
  api.renderInOutlet("discovery-list-container-top", FirstPosts);
});

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EDIT: Now using ajax() and htmlSafe instead of triple curly braces.

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Thank you Nate! I’m trying to figure out what you changed

Your code seems to match my first version

You have replaced let with const in the for loop

is that correct?

ask discourse version throws error

for (let id of topicIds) {
      let res = await fetch(`/t/${id}.json`);
      let data = await res.json();
      if (data.post_stream && data.post_stream.posts.length > 0) {
        posts.push(data.post_stream.posts[0]);
      }
    }

Nate’s version runs

for (let id of topicIds) {
      const res = await fetch(`/t/${id}.json`);
      const data = await res.json();
      if (data.post_stream && data.post_stream.posts.length > 0) {
        posts.push(data.post_stream.posts[0]);
      }
    }

Can anyone explain what is wrong? Why Let wouldn’t work and const does?

Thanks again Nate

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I tried let and the result was the same. It’s just that I’d normally use const when using fetch() or ajax().

I believe the error comes from the static template = line. With it, I get:

[THEME 10283 'Pokemon Theme'] Error: connector component has no associated template. Ensure the template is colocated or authored with gjs.
    at h (plugin-connectors.js:35:11)
    at eY.renderInOutlet (plugin-api.gjs:1116:5)
    at todo.gjs:43:7
    at eH (plugin-api.gjs:3363:10)
    at Object.initialize (api.js:21:14)
    at i.initialize (app.js:265:28)
    at index.js:379:19
    at e.each (index.js:183:7)
    at e.walk (index.js:112:10)
    at e.each (index.js:59:20)
    at e.topsort (index.js:65:10)
    at iL._runInitializer (index.js:392:11)
    at iL.runInstanceInitializers (index.js:377:10)
    at l._bootSync (instance.js:116:22)
    at iL.didBecomeReady (index.js:784:18)
    at invoke (index.js:262:14)
    at m.flush (index.js:180:11)
    at g.flush (index.js:334:19)
    at z._end (index.js:762:32)
    at _boundAutorunEnd (index.js:499:12)

And if I just use <template> directly, there’s no error. I don’t think using static template is valid here, so just using the template tag directly works.

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