solution - i hadn't removed my custom theme properly. you need to reset to the default theme, remove the link, and use npm rm to completely remove your theme so it doesn't check for it.

i'm not sure why my calendar plugin broke as well, or why the bootswatch theme i was using as a base has stopped working either. but the build itself is working.

i've tried uninstalling and reinstalling node-theme-vanilla, but no dice. rebuilding assets separately afterwards leaves layouts weird and general problems with some plugins.

2018-12-28T18:16:59.685Z [4567/3231] - error: [build] Encountered error preparing for build
Error: [[error:theme-not-found]]
    at /var/www/nodebb/src/meta/themes.js:212:21
    at nextTask (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:5324:14)
    at next (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:5331:9)
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:969:16
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3888:9
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:473:16
    at iterateeCallback (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:992:24)
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:969:16
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3885:13
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:473:16
2018-12-28T18:16:59.685Z [4567/3231] - error: [build] Encountered error during build step
Error: [[error:theme-not-found]]
    at /var/www/nodebb/src/meta/themes.js:212:21
    at nextTask (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:5324:14)
    at next (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:5331:9)
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:969:16
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3888:9
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:473:16
    at iterateeCallback (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:992:24)
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:969:16
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3885:13
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:473:16
Error occurred during upgrade: Error: [[error:theme-not-found]]
    at /var/www/nodebb/src/meta/themes.js:212:21
    at nextTask (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:5324:14)
    at next (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:5331:9)
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:969:16
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3888:9
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:473:16
    at iterateeCallback (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:992:24)
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:969:16
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3885:13
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:473:16
2018-12-28T18:16:59.686Z [4567/3231] - error: [themes] Unable to parse theme.json nodebb-theme-vanilla
2018-12-28T18:16:59.689Z [4567/3231] - error: uncaughtException: Callback was already called.
Error: Callback was already called.
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:966:32
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:1137:13
    at /var/www/nodebb/src/meta/themes.js:114:7
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:78:16
    at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (fs.js:511:3) {"error":{},"stack":"Error: Callback was already called.\n    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:966:32\n    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:1137:13\n    at /var/www/nodebb/src/meta/themes.js:114:7\n    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:78:16\n    at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (fs.js:511:3)","exception":true,"date":"Fri Dec 28 2018 18:16:59 GMT+0000 (UTC)","process":{"pid":3231,"uid":0,"gid":0,"cwd":"/var/www/nodebb","execPath":"/usr/bin/node","version":"v8.14.0","argv":["/usr/bin/node","/var/www/nodebb/nodebb","upgrade"],"memoryUsage":{"rss":139333632,"heapTotal":105914368,"heapUsed":72311456,"external":19339472}},"os":{"loadavg":[0.47900390625,0.3271484375,0.24462890625],"uptime":3239},"trace":[{"column":32,"file":"/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js","function":null,"line":966,"method":null,"native":false},{"column":13,"file":"/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js","function":null,"line":1137,"method":null,"native":false},{"column":7,"file":"/var/www/nodebb/src/meta/themes.js","function":null,"line":114,"method":null,"native":false},{"column":16,"file":"/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js","function":null,"line":78,"method":null,"native":false},{"column":3,"file":"fs.js","function":"FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete]","line":511,"method":"readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete]","native":false}]}

i have my own custom theme, but i deactivated it and removed the symlink beforehand. so i don't see how it should be affecting this

i've got 20+ tags that i want to apply to every subcategory in a parent category, and i've got around 20+ subcategories that i need to put them all in (with more categories coming), this is a lot of work! i tried using copy settings from, but that isn't working with tags.

maybe if there was a toggle for each subcategory for 'use parents tag whitelist', so you can have the parent's tags, and add custom ones on for that category on top?

here https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodebb-plugin-alignment
and https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodebb-plugin-simple-spoiler

Text and image alignment in the first one, a simple spoiler that allows you to name them and stack them inside each other in the second. Both built for default composer and super plain so you can style them as you like.

same as other plugins - they're for my personal site so no guaranteed support.

excellent! thank you very much

Is this not a thing that's possible? It feels pretty basic.

at npmjs.com/package/nodebb-plugin-dice-and-numbers

Built to work in the default composer. Not much css attached, but it should be pretty easy to make it look however you like.

Adds a button that opens a panel where you can select if you'd like to roll XdX dice or generate X random numbers within a range of X to X.
Results are visible in posts like this:

Results are also not editable in posts after they are rolled.

Still kinda wip but no guarantee I'll work on it further, since it does what I want for my own forum.

I've got some custom fields that I have working in my composer, but I'd like to be able to show the data that was submitted when editing posts. I tried passing it in as templateData when composer.build is called, but it only seems to be called when you have the composer as a separate route, which I don't want.

tl;dr I have data in postData that I want to show/be editable by users while editing their posts, how do I get it into composerData? thanks!