The API route doesn't render a template. It just outputs the JSON that is passed into render.
You can test this by prepending /api on any route, you'll see JSON output.
The purpose of this is for the AJAX loading of the next page.
plugin.json changes
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As per https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/2578
The properties
id,nameanddescriptionin plugin.json will be phased out in 0.6.1.You can still have them but the values from package.json will be used.
closed Remove duplicate fields from plugin.json #2578
