You define routes in your load hook. So your library.js might look like this:
var Plugin = module.exports = {};
Plugin.load = function (params, callback) {
var router = params.router;
var middleware = params.middleware;
// Define the function that renders the custom route.
function render(req, res, next) {
// Get whatever data you want to send to the template here.
var data = {whatever: 33};
// This is the path to your template without the .tpl, relative to the templates directory in plugin.json
var template = 'templatename'
// Send the page to the user.
res.render(template, data);
}
// This actually creates the routes, you need two routes for every page.
// The first parameter is the actual path to your page.
router.get('/yourpage', middleware.buildHeader, render);
router.get('/api/yourpage', render);
callback();
};
And your plugin.json would look something like this:
{
"library": "library.js",
"hooks": [
{ "hook": "static:app.load", "method": "load" }
],
"templates": "./public/templates",
"staticDirs": {
"public": "public"
}
}
and you would have a template here:
/nodebb-plugin-yourplugin/public/templates/templatename.tpl
<h2>My Awesome Custom Page</h2>
The Magic Number is: {whatever}
I'm pretty sure I posted about this before, with more details even. Have to start using those canned responses. 🌹
