Developer Guides

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Developer Guides Index index Documentation about extending Discourse with plugins, themes, and theme components, working with the core code, and using the Discourse API. Introduction Introduction: Introduction to Discourse Development Development…	3	909	August 27, 2024
Developing Discourse using a Dev Container	4	3477	April 8, 2025
Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development dev-install , how-to	80	186285	April 7, 2025
Discourse toolkit to render forms	22	553	April 1, 2025
Customizing the topic list	0	279	February 4, 2025
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface	0	224	September 11, 2024
Install Discourse for development using Docker docker , dev-install , how-to	214	76636	March 21, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 3. CSS in Themes	5	78	March 18, 2025
Developing Discourse Themes & Theme Components reference , tutorial , theme-guides	15	103171	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 6. Using the JS API	0	62	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 5. Building and using components	0	51	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 4. Using Outlets to insert and replace content	0	48	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 2. Creating a remote theme	0	65	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 1. Introduction	0	111	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 7. Wrapping up	0	31	March 18, 2025
Add Ember Components to Discourse ember , how-to , code	7	7650	March 17, 2025
Adding metadata and screenshots to a Theme reference , theme-guides	0	1872	May 31, 2019
Structure of themes and theme components reference , theme-guides	0	28206	April 12, 2017
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 3 - Add custom site settings plugin-guides , tutorial	39	22619	March 15, 2025
Split up theme SCSS into multiple files how-to	12	4451	January 18, 2024
Using modifyClass to change core behavior	5	1783	March 10, 2025
Replace Discourse's default SVG icons with custom icons in a theme how-to , theme-guides	7	8190	March 7, 2025
Setup Continuous Integration using GitHub Actions how-to , code	8	1272	March 3, 2025
Split up theme Javascript into multiple files how-to , theme-guides	5	6281	February 16, 2025
Objects type for theme setting how-to , theme-guides	20	1065	February 8, 2025
Create custom Automations automation , how-to	16	2528	February 7, 2025
Using service objects in Discourse	0	189	October 30, 2024
Introduction to Discourse Development	1	480	February 1, 2025
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior	0	139	January 31, 2025
Use the `navigation_menu` query parameter to preview the sidebar or other options how-to	1	746	January 27, 2025

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Documentation about extending Discourse with plugins, themes, and theme components, working with the core code, and using the Discourse API. Introduction Introduction: Introduction to Discourse Development Development…