Plugin Development

Awesome ty so much 🙂
I ended up making the call to Categories.getCategoryTopics() but I may switch back to the method you posted above 👍

@PitaJ Thanks for the answer!
I don't really know what do you mean by "template base object", do you mean the template file, or the template renderer?

EDIT:
Or it's just by doing like data.title = "blabla" before the render?

Also can I add other metadata to improve the SEO of the page?

@pichalite said in Restrict access on /users and /api/users if not logged:

ACP -> Settings -> Guests

Thanks @pichalite .
Actually the guests can access the /users page and /api/users.
The setting will hide the search fields, but they can see the page anyway and use the pagination to see the users.

I've finally added this on my routeSetup:

routeHelpers.setupPageRoute( router, '/users', middleware, [middleware.checkGlobalPrivacySettings, middleware.requireUser], usersController.index);

and now I get the "Access denied" page that I wanted.

Thanks for the help.

Client side you can call ajaxify.refresh() to refresh the page.

You might be able to use config.bootswatchSkin

I cloned @CCob's OneSignal push notification plugin, which is basically the Pushbullet plugin.
However, whenenver I try to visit the route to enter my user specific settings a 404 error is returned.
If you hit F5 to reload the page it will show up, leading me to the conclusion something is wrong with Ajax/the route itself.

Is there any way to correct this?

Thanks all 😄

Sorry to hear that making a theme is difficult for you 😞

Like @Pitaj says, using grunt to autocompile assets immediately on save is the best way to reduce the time in between changes.

@psychobunny also has some tips and tricks that may be helpful for you 😄

ahh nice! Thanks @PitaJ
I could not find any info on the docs:
https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/plugins/create.html

will give it a try.

Thanks

Similar to something like <!-- IF !isTopicOrMain --> or <!-- IF !isEditing -->, is there some variable I can check in my .tpl file to see which category or subcategory I'm in?

I'm building out a custom composer that changes based on where the topic is being posted. For instance, it would know that I'm currently in the "NodeBB Plugins" category and display a particular part of my .tpl file, otherwise it wouldn't.

I'm looking to include custom forms on my site so that users can post uniform data for certain categories.

What would be the best way to tackle this? Would I need to create an entire plugin for a new composer, just make a custom .tpl file, etc.?

Looking for any suggestions or help! Attached are a few mockups of the form from an older website-

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@Tomas-Pavlacky seems that we will have to submit a PR to update those dependencies. Did you managed to make it work?

@smi-jonathan This is something we'd like to support. Please open an issue on Github so we can track it more easily. Thanks

@Jenkler IMO the best example is their code!

You could replicate and modify what in NodeBB are categories as groups (Movie/games/tv show), and what in NodeBB are topics as actual elements (a movie, a tv-series, a game). The best examples of code are their one and you can find them in /src 🙂

In order to use these things in your plugin, check official plugins code ^^

In my opinion is the best way to learn 😉

I Guess it would be better to build a plugin that can handle registration of different types of media (Movies, Games,)

I Changed back to IMDB open api because FreeBase sucked. Still looking for good input on this.

@yariplus, any good input on this?

Seconding the recommendation to use request. That's the server side equivalent to making an xhr on the client side.

Hi guys,
I used ./nodebb dev to develop my first plugin, everything worked smoothly, but when I activated it in production, the server didn't started at all with this error:

nodebb[12835]: {"level":"error","message":"[meta/js] Could not compile nodebb.min.js: SyntaxError: Unexpected token: name (bool)","timestamp":"2016-11-22T18:24:25.854Z"} nodebb[12835]: {"message":"SyntaxError: Unexpected token: name (bool)","stack":"Error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token: name (bool)\n at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/var/nodebb/src/meta/js.js:182:15)\n at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)\n at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)\n at process.nextTick (internal/child_process.js:744:12)\n at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:67:7)\n at process._tickDomainCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:122:9)","level":"error","timestamp":"2016-11-22T18:24:25.855Z"}

the point is that on dev it never happened before, what I'm doing wrong?

Again, thank you for the prompt answer!