This might be a silly question, but could someone point me in the right direction? I can’t seem to find the currentUser service file in the Discourse repo. There simply isn’t a current-user.js file in the app/services directory. And yet, @service currentUser exists. Is this part of Ember core (I dou…

It’s here - including a comment why it’s not a “real” service. frontend/discourse/app/initializers/inject-discourse-objects.js 5b51f071c const currentUser = User.current(); // We can't use a 'real' service factory (i.e. services/current-user…

Where is the currentUser service located?

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) December 31, 2025, 1:16pm 3

Thanks! I wouldn’t have thought to look there.

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Where is the currentUser service located?

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