what to learn for nodebb theme

[charles]

at the very basic level, what languages do you need to know to create a nodebb theme?

[phit]

html, css and a little bit of javascript
though you can get away with just css and html if you just wanna modify an existent theme

[charles]

@phit

inside files, there are many html comments like <!-- BEGIN children --> but where is the reference for those? any instructions for .tpl files?

[phit]

@charles this is the templating engine nodebb uses

there is some documentation about it in the wiki https://nodebb-francais.readthedocs.org/projects/nodebb/en/latest/themes/templates.html#templating-basics

and on its github page
https://github.com/psychobunny/templates.js/blob/master/README.md#template-syntax

[charles]

@phit

html, css, javascript and then learn the template engine.

thanks for sharing!

[pichalite]

@charles templates.js is not too complex. all you need to know is loops, conditionals and import.

Couple of things not in the documentation...

• you can't do more than one test in a conditional (no and's or or's)
• loops won't do anything if the array is empty so, no need to check if the array has items

[charles]

@pichalite

i'm sure many beginners would love to start with your knowledge