How do you actually work on a theme?

[nolo]

Hi I'm working as a community designer and I'm curious to implement a theme with nodebb.

I'm struggling with the actual workflow for theme development though. My understanding so far: the theme needs to be on the server in nodebb/node_modules, I need to push changes to the server, and then I need to rebuild and restart the forum to see effects.

So I hope I'm missing something and there's a more fluid setup to actually work on a theme?

[PitaJ]

You can run NodeBB locally. npm link your theme module instead of developing directly inside node_modules. Use grunt to automatically rebuild and restart as you modify files.

[nolo]

@PitaJ thank you! will give this a try