Cool 🙂 I don't really have any material that's not on this forum already. We did one for the nodejs meet up in Toronto two years ago, but that's when we were just starting up and I'm pretty sure whatever I was talking about is either now outdated or simply BS 😛
Override templates in nodebb-widget-essentials
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Hey Nodebb Team:
Is it possible to write a plugin to override templates in nodebb-widget-essentials instead of fork a new one?
Thanks,
Ethan -
Sure thing, any template you define with the same name and path will override a previously loaded one.
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Thanks, but how could I control the order when the plugin is loaded?
@yariplus said in Override templates in nodebb-widget-essentials:
Sure thing, any template you define with the same name and path will override a previously loaded one.
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@ethanwu In the ACP plugins menu, there is a button on the right that says "Order Active Plugins". Make sure your plugin is below widget-essentials.
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@yariplus said in Override templates in nodebb-widget-essentials:
@ethanwu In the ACP plugins menu, there is a button on the right that says "Order Active Plugins". Make sure your plugin is below widget-essentials.
Thanks, I did that. And the console also prints "/widgets/categories.tpl replaced by {my-plugin}".
However, after I restart the server, the templates still remaining unchanged. Is there anything wrong?
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Oh, sorry about that. Looks like widget-essentials still uses some old code that reads the raw template file without looking for replacements. I'll see if I can get this fixed for you.
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@yariplus said in Override templates in nodebb-widget-essentials:
Oh, sorry about that. Looks like widget-essentials still uses some old code that reads the raw template file without looking for replacements. I'll see if I can get this fixed for you.
Thanks, can you let me know how. I would love to help on this.
I looked at the plugin, in the
initmethod, it seem it directly load from the__dirnamehttps://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-widget-essentials/blob/master/library.js#L44
Do you know what should i change to enable it to read from the overridden one?
Thanks,
Ethan -
@ethanwu I just submitted the changes needed here.
If you want to use it right away, you can just replace the widget-essentials
library.jsfile with mine until it is updated. -
@yariplus said in Override templates in nodebb-widget-essentials:
@ethanwu I just submitted the changes needed here.
If you want to use it right away, you can just replace the widget-essentials
library.jsfile with mine until it is updated.Thanks, i will test it today.
