How do I set up my dev environment for child themes?

[Alexander Shortt]

Hello

I'm trying to decide whether I want to fork persona or create a child theme. I set up the dev environment as a child and found that I have to run ./nodebb upgrade every time I want to see my changes. Does forking make more sense? If so how do I set up my dev environment for that?

Also, side question, is there a template that applies global HTML?

[Shard]

When I have forked, in the past, I give the theme a new name and flip back and forth as needed.

[PitaJ]

You don't need to run ./nodebb upgrade every time you make changes. You just need to run ./nodebb build. You can use the --dev flag to make it faster because you don't need minification during dev.

You can also use grunt to dev but you'll need to disable the emoji plugin.