Where is the currentUser service located?

NateDhaliwal · December 31, 2025, 11:15am

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 doubt it)? Or some Ember extension/additional NPM ^[1] package?

Thanks.

Technically, pnpm ↩︎

RGJ · December 31, 2025, 11:47am

It’s here - including a comment why it’s not a “real” service.

github.com/discourse/discourse

frontend/discourse/app/initializers/inject-discourse-objects.js

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          const currentUser = User.current();
          
          // We can't use a 'real' service factory (i.e. services/current-user.js) because we need
          // to register a null value for anon
          app.register("service:current-user", currentUser, { instantiate: false });

NateDhaliwal · December 31, 2025, 1:16pm

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

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Where is the currentUser service located?

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