I'm writing a simple widget to show the status of any Source Server Query (SSQ) enabled server.
Right now the plugin is really simple but I aim to implement new features soon.

Features

• Show server name
• Show number of logged players and max players supported
• Show list of players and their play time
• Show a message when the server is down

Screenshot

Any feedback is welcome!

@BDHarrington7 said:

@Fez-Vrasta said:

so they should have called it dist...

And inside it you should see only compiled sources. .tpl files are not compiled so they shouldn't be there.

Also, I have placed a background image in that folder and it never been removed.

It's not really compiled in the traditional sense, nodejs (JavaScript as a whole) is an interpreted language. What is stored in the public folder are templates that are assembled at startup depending on your theme choices, etc. so if you put some change in the tpl file it will get overwritten. The templates are then used by client-side parsers to render the content for the user.

If you're trying to make changes to something in a tpl file, you have to modify the theme directly.

I'm a JavaScript developer (I work with Ember.js and stuff like that) so I know how it works.
The problem is that if you want to use the public folder to provide only compiled stuff then the templates should be compiled as well (aka, JS files and not TPL files anymore)

Something similar to what happens with handlebars: http://handlebarsjs.com/precompilation.html

@yariplus I just setup the custom menu item and then I use the custom pages plugin to show the custom page.

so they should have called it dist...

And inside it you should see only compiled sources. .tpl files are not compiled so they shouldn't be there.

Also, I have placed a background image in that folder and it never been removed.

I still don't get why should it happens...

@leksar why should a tpl created inside public folder get deleted automatically?

Is there a way to publish topics to a specific group and allow only the members to see them?

With "every day" I mean that every X hours it breaks (probably after reloads, restarts, new plugins etc).

I have created an empty .tpl using touch

I have correctly setup a custom page (playark.it/arkmap) but every day I have to create it again because it breaks...

Internal error.
Oops! Looks like something went wrong!
/arkmap
Failed to lookup view "arkmap" in views directory "/home/www/node/playark/nodebb/public/templates"

What's the problem?

currently there aren't better solution than NodeBB.

Surely it can be improved, but so far I'm loving it.

I'm using the Vanilla theme and I'd like to know if there is a way to show a widget in the categories list of the home page.