@PitaJ Hi,sorry to bother you,but I ran into some errors.
I set up a new page,registered it with params.router.get('/myentrance',renderEntrance).And I'd like to import the default header(with some modification later) so I placed these (<!-- IMPORT header.tpl -->) on entrance.tpl. Then the page went down.The error on console says Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at myentrance:12 The page shows only "Login" button and progress bar kept flashing.
I know I must've missed the data "header.tpl" needs,but what do I do to get these data? Looking forward to your reply,thanks.

@PitaJ Thank u so much!! So the correct way is to register my new url as router.get(url, middleware)in src>routes>api.js ,and then register params.router.get(url,controller); in nodebb-mytheme>lib>theme.js> theme.init = function(params, callback) {
I need to spend some time checking what do these middlewares do.May stumble into a few more errors after.Hopefully I can still go to u for advice.

@PitaJ Indeed...Thanks a lot.
I'm still having trouble making my new pages. Neither adding params.router.get('/myentrance',renderEntrance()); in theme.init function or adding router.get('/myentrance', controllers.user.getCurrentUser); works.
What do I have to do to register a url in router?

@PitaJ Already downloaded nodebb-plugin-quickstart and nodebb-theme-quickstart.
Please excuse me,I worked with Vue before,don't know much about node.js.
Perhaps I should look up documents on express to get a better understanding on nodebb?
One thing that confuses me the most is I never found categories.tpl which serves as the home page.Where is it? I can see that controller renders "categories"
res.render('categories', data).But the dir "categories" works as a service layer ,obviously not the one I'm looking for. There has to be a tpl file named "categories", and I can only find one in dir "build".
That's not the one I'm looking for,is it?

@PitaJ Hi,u r the author of "nodebb-plugin-calendar" right? Very nice to meet u,I've been reading ur code but little progress by now.
I don't feel well about using "nodebb-plugin-custom-pages", that's for a landing page right? I need a whole new set including tpl and backend code(controller,database connection etc) . I don't see any files other than .tpl in dir build which gives me doubts.
Haven't used nodebb-plugin-customize before,but that's for translation?I 'd like to develop a new function which would need everything from inserting data into database to a new page.
e.g I'm using theme-slick as a starter, but what should I do other than making a new tpl if I want a page which would query some data from mongodb and insert them into the page?
Sorry the upload func is down. I'll use text instead.

what should I do if I want to make a new tpl in client side? Where do I put controller?Do I need to keep anything else in mind?

Hi I'm a beginner and I'd like to create a forum with nodebb.

Though nodebb is great but I need some major changes,and I 'm getting more and more confused. The documents needs to be more specific.
. e.g I 'd like a new hompage,and some other functions (an exam system).

• Do I need to develop a new theme for that? or a new plugin?

• If I want to add some new pages to it,should I just create some tpl files?

• What do I do to connect these tpl files? Register them in Router.js file?
  e.g. I'd like to modify categories(which is the default home page for nodebb),but I don't see any in dir "views". I found one named "categories.tpl" in dir "build ".But can I modify it?Aren't those files in dir "build" automatically built by "build" command?
  I'm quite lost.Could anyone just give me hint or something? Thanks.

Hi,I'm new to nodeBB and I was trying to develop on Intellij.
I simply add Configuration for Grunt using the default Grunt.js in the nodeBB folder.
But I noticed something was different between running Grunt and running "nodebb --dev start".
I wrote an empty plugin using "nodebb-plugin-quickstart". It works normal on "nodebb-dev-start".
But,when I use Grunt to run it,it says "warn: [upgrade/appendPluginScripts] Unable to read plugin.json for plugin nodebb-plugin-fr-exam. Skipping." And all the sudden,the empty plugin I modified doesn't work anymore.No settings on ACP , no consoles on pages(I modified from nodebb-plugin-quickstart).
What exactly did I do wrong?
I'm pretty sure the dev group is using Grunt since the building process is annoying.There's no reason I can't use Grunt ,right?Please help.

Here's the complete error log occurs on Windows.
Screenshots:
![CM~8(9CYHD8TWW@]F~36]U8.png](https://i.imgur.com/ccs4Yq0.png)
![CM~8(9CYHD8TWW@]F~36]U8.png](https://i.imgur.com/TsXwusY.png)
Log text:
Dependencies outdated or not yet installed.
Installing them now...

npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: core-js@<3 is no longer maintained and not recommended for usage due to the number of iss
ues. Please, upgrade your dependencies to the actual version of core-js@3.
npm ERR! code 128
npm ERR! Command failed: git clone --mirror -q git://github.com/thomaspark/bootswatch.git C:\Users\huawei\AppData\Roaming\npm
-cache_cacache\tmp\git-clone-3825054a.git --config core.longpaths=true
npm ERR! warning: templates not found in C:\Users\huawei\AppData\Local\Temp\pacote-git-template-tmp\git-clone-fd3314bb
npm ERR! fatal: read error: Invalid argument
npm ERR! fatal: early EOF
npm ERR! fatal: index-pack failed
npm ERR!

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\huawei\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2020-06-13T03_49_30_961Z-debug.log
Error installing dependencies!
message: Command failed: npm install --production
stdout: null
stderr: null
D:\Coding\Web_Project\NodeBB-v1.14.x\src\cli\package-install.js:72
throw e;
^

Error: Command failed: npm install --production
at checkExecSyncError (child_process.js:630:11)
at Object.execSync (child_process.js:666:15)
at Object.installAll (D:\Coding\Web_Project\NodeBB-v1.14.x\src\cli\package-install.js:63:9)
at Object.<anonymous> (D:\Coding\Web_Project\NodeBB-v1.14.x\src\cli\index.js:60:18)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1138:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1158:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:986:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:879:14)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1026:19)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:72:18) {
status: 1,
signal: null,
output: [ null, null, null ],
pid: 552,
stdout: null,
stderr: null
}

I suppose I can just forbid users from changing skins to bypass this error.

@PitaJ I installed node as sudo. So I had to install everything as a non-sudo user,including mongodb/node right?
Exactly same issue on windows.I simply ran "nodebb setup",not as an Administrator,then it got stucked.The error log says it couldn't fetch bootswatch git mirror because of invalid arguments.

@PitaJ For example,I ran "nodebb setup" as non-root user on CentOS7,and it stopped and said “insufficient privileges”
I tried to install it both on Windows and CentOs.I never ran node command as an Administrator on Windows,but still can't do.
Is there any way I can install a ".less" version of bootswatch manually?
Also,should it failed,it has nothing to do with Theme plugins right?

Hey,I ran into this problem as well.
But I can't get it by "run NodeBB as root".What exactly does it mean?
I got it partially fixed by switching package.json to ""bootswatch": "^4.5.0"" instead of github mirror.But it seems that bootswatch skin is no longer available.The error log says that nodeBB requires some ".less" files in bootswatch module.However,version 4.5 bootswatch contains only ".scss" files.
Can someone please tell me how can I fix it? Many thanks.