Plugin Templates Not Loading - Hello new build system!

[jongarrison]

I recently deployed a new public Ubuntu server with Nodebb 1.4.3 and then upgraded to 1.4.4. For some reason, my plugin's template files are not being loaded into the nodebb/plugin/templates directory now.

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Locally, when I do a "./nodebb dev" startup I see this in my logs:

6/3 16:14 [28897] - verbose: [plugins] /header.tpl replaced by ...

On my public server I don't see this even when doing the dev start.

To set up this new server, I followed the docs here: https://nodebb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing/os/ubuntu.html

Any ideas?

[PitaJ]

@jongarrison what directory are you expecting them to show up in? They should be showing up in the build/public/templates directory under whatever template it's called.

[jongarrison]

Interesting, I had thought they were in /public/templates. Was that in older versions?

In any event, the server wasn't loading new templates coming in with an updated plugin.

I'm in the process of trying out a few things with the server now.

[jongarrison]

Found the solution, It turns out that I had missed this blog post before upgrading to 1.4.x:

Introducing the build system in v1.4.x

./nodebb build