Where do I find the definition of the search field

[vinothkannans (Vinoth Kannan)]

It’s here, and it is a Widget. So you can’t find it in .hbs template files.

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

This is out of date. See Widgets, the Widget API and their roadmap? 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 techniq…