Themeing... Started with Quickstart got some bad results

Chad Augur

@phenomlab again thanks–that UI is a bit confusing. Almost got me there, and I could make it work with some CSS, most likely.

phenomlab

@Chad-Augur It can be daunting if used fot the first time, but once you get used to it, it becomes easier each time

<baris>

@Chad-Augur harmony already has a header.tpl in the templates folder. https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-harmony/blob/main/templates/header.tpl. You can copy this to your custom theme and then add your custom header above the layout-container and it should show up above everything else.

<baris>

Might be a good idea for us to add a widget area there so this can be done via widgets instead of needing a custom theme.

phenomlab

@baris I can certainly make use of that.

Chad Augur

@baris I did finally getting it working. There was some weird formatting in the code that was breaking things. Thank you for chiming in. The globalnav widget area would be awesome.

Chad Augur

My theme works but this whole place it in node_modules thing is unstable. Is there a way to steal it so that I am not losing it all the time? Or do I need to get it into a repository so I can simply install it with npm?

phenomlab

@Chad-Augur You could use the customize plugin for this - nodebb-plugin-customize.

<baris>

@Chad-Augur for local development, you can use npm link to link your theme into your node_modules and use grunt to automatically rebuild when you make changes to tpl or scss files. Once you are done with dev you can npm publish it.

Chad Augur

@baris TY. Despite having been a JS developer for more than 10years I had never published my own npm package. Now I have. TY.