Uninitialized variable named settings

[jlc (John L. Clark)]

I’m still learning about theme and plugin development, so there’s a lot I’m ignorant about, but I’m wanting to contribute to this theme component if possible. So I’ve been looking at Fix board button categories by nathan-nz · Pull Request #23 · discourse/discourse-kanban-theme · GitHub as one possible starting point. And I have a basic question: in https://github.com/discourse/discourse-kanban-theme/blob/main/javascripts/discourse-kanban/lib/kanban-utilities.js and a few other places there is an uninitialized variable named settings; it must be setup by the tooling somewhere, and I’m curious to learn more about how that works. Is that an Ember feature, or the Discourse theme driver, or something else? Is there more documentation on variables like that somewhere?

[david (David Taylor)]

It’s a Discourse theme thing - you can find more info here:

Add settings to your Discourse theme

Discourse has the ability for themes to have “settings” that can be added by theme developers to allow site owners to customize themes through UI without having to change any line of code and worry about losing their changes with future updates for the theme. Adding settings to your theme Adding settings to your theme is a bit different from adding CSS and JS code, that is there is no way to do it via the UI. The way to add settings is to create a repository for your theme, …