New Route For Home Page

Leonardo Galani

HI guys.. im looking over nodebb code so i could have a clue how to write down a plugin that can retrive all categories and recent topics.

I found the the methods that return that data..

Categories.getAllCategories
Topics.getLatestTopics

also found the hook to the homepage

filter:homepage.get

i was thinking about adding another register on this filter for a custom route but how i can create another route without messing around the core code, and return a json array with those 2 methods return?

any leads or maybe this idea is too much and there is something more elegant and simple?

<baris>

In your plugins init method you can do

var helpers = module.parent.require('./routes/helpers');

myPlugin.init = function(params, callback) {
    helpers.setupPageRoute(params.app, '/', params.middleware, [], myCustomHome);
    callback();
};

function myCustomHome(req, res, next) {
    async.parallel({
         categories: function(next) {
            Categories.getAllCategories();
         }
         topics: function(next) {
            Topics.getLatestTopics();
         }
    }, function(err, results) {
         res.render('myCustomTemplate', results);
    });
}

I left out some of the params for the 2 methods you mentioned. Let me know if you can't figure it out.