angus
September 24, 2020, 11:13pm
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The way that I’ve dealt with this in the past is by packaging the buttons in a html helper, which will render the raw html in the raw templates, which you can then insert via a raw plugin outlet. Here’s an example:
https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-topic-previews/blob/master/assets/javascripts/discourse/helpers/preview-helpers.js.es6#L8
The button click is handled in the topic-list-item component, e.g.
https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-topic-previews/blob/master/assets/javascripts/discourse/initializers/preview-edits.js.es6#L332
@merefield May also have some thoughts
Also, you’ll probably want to use the theme javascripts folder structure instead of adding scripts to the header.html. See
Complex theme javascript can be split into multiple files, to keep things nicely organised.
To use this functionality, simply add files to the /javascripts folder in your theme directory. Currently, these files can not be edited from the Discourse UI, so you must use the Theme CLI or source the theme from git .
Javascript files are treated exactly the same as they are in core/plugins, so you should follow the same file/folder structure. Theme files are loaded after core/plugins, so if the filen…
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