@Brophy What I do with my custom plugin is

git clone nodebb-plugin-my-plugin into the server user's home folder,
cd nodebb-plugin-my-plugin
npm link

then in the nodebb's root folder: npm link nodebb-plugin-my-plugin. And I never lose the plugin, if I have to release a new update I just do a git pull in the plugin (original) folder, then is updated automatically when I restart the forum.

So in your case I'd say create the nodebb-theme-your-theme folder somewhere in your server, do npm link and then in nodebb npm link nodebb-theme-your-theme .

But I think this is suggested for development environments, not for production, even if in my case is working pretty well
Another way to do it is to install your theme with npm install git+https://[email protected]/<your-git-user>/<your-private-theme-repo>.git

Voted for NodeBB!

@sanatisharif probably is nodebb-plugin-iframely

User.getUidByUsername here

@orweinberger

I honestly don't know how much RAM it would require, but if you're worried about it you can always use MongoDB + Redis, it's fast enough and it doesn't require to put everything in RAM.

I think big forums use mongo + redis if not only mongo.

My forum has 4k users and 3.5k posts (more or less) and I use 84Mb of RAM with Redis only, if we suppose that an user "weight" as much as a post (even if a post is actually less), it would require 3.5Gb of RAM (311k/7.5k*84).
Even if I think it should be less.

I think you can contact directly @julian to know how much they take to implement the functionality you want in NodeBB or in a plugin

To anyone searching the same thing, I resolved the problem using the custom write-api hooks, I wasn't aware of:

https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-write-api/blob/master/routes/v1/index.js#L45

filter:plugin.write-api.routes

that gives you data, I used it in this way:

function(data, callback) {

	var app = data.router;
	var apiMiddleware = data.apiMiddleware;
	var middleware = data.middleware;
	var errorHandler = data.errorHandler;

        app.post('/route', apiMiddleware.requireUser, function(req, res) {
        // do stuff
        });

	callback(null, {
		router: app
	});

};

Obviously you should have nodebb-plugin-write-api installed.

@dxxt systemctl,

For NodeBB < 1.5 I use this configuration (read below), but I don't know if the ExecStart script should be updated in the future:

Just create a file called nodebb.service in /etc/systemd/system (or /etc/systemd/user, or any subfolder of systemd), stop nodebb as you run it now and do:

 sudo systemctl daemon-reload
 sudo systemctl start nodebb

The configuration file is:

[Unit]
Description=NodeBB Service
After=system.slice multi-user.target

[Service]
User=YOUR_USER
Group=YOUR_USERGROUP

StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=nodebb

Environment=NODE_ENV=production
WorkingDirectory=/var/nodebb
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node loader.js --no-daemon --no-silent
Restart=always

[Install]
Alias=forum
WantedBy=multi-user.target

You can read mode about systemctl, that is the integrated Ubuntu service manager, read here

MongoDB is a NoSQL database. It's a non-relational database of keys-values objects.
NodeBB doesn't use SQL, so you will not use your SQL database to make NodeBB work.

@Esteban-Constante by socket you can create a new socket handler in your plugin (and it can use the same function as the one you already use for the api route more or less), check here how they create a new "socket route", and here how they use it for the Q&A plugin.

Here is how they do for actual mentions (you probably already saw it)

I think you should configure the S3 Bucket's policies.

I think, but I'm not sure since I just googled it, should be something like:

{
  "Version": "2008-10-17",
  "Id": "preventHotLinking",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "1",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "*"
      },
      "Action": "s3:GetObject",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::my-brand-new-bucket/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:Referer": [
            "http://yourwebsitename.com/*",
            "http://www.yourwebsitename.com/*"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

AWS Documentation
StackOverflow Question
Little Extra

@AOKP Why did you help him the first time?

I mean, he doesn't seem bad, he's just too lazy to try to understand. Or too stupid.

@Michael-Pfaff I have no clue on how the plugin works, but from the error stack-trace you're trying to use a method .replace on an undefined object, in the file nodebb-plugin-dice-bot/src/dice.js at line 84. Try to see if .replace() is called there, and check with the debugger why the object it's been called on doesn't exist.

Edit: I think it has something to do with the "create post hook", or something like that.

@ToeiRei https://community.nodebb.org/topic/9222/invalid-csrf-token/7 check here to solve that problem

@Michael-Pfaff here

What's your objective in the end?

To read/write on the database (whichever you're using), with NodeBB I'd suggest you to use the "abstract layer" they developed. You can import src/database.js from the sources and use the native functions implemented in nodebb.

To see how they structure data, I'd suggest you to go check the code of their official plugins (or directly of the platform core).

You should definitely learn Node first, IMO.

There was this guy who did what you're searching but on AWS

@jiangcaiyang He gets notification of the same "event" every time he scrolls at the bottom of the page /notifications

@Jenkler IMO the best example is their code!

You could replicate and modify what in NodeBB are categories as groups (Movie/games/tv show), and what in NodeBB are topics as actual elements (a movie, a tv-series, a game). The best examples of code are their one and you can find them in /src

In order to use these things in your plugin, check official plugins code ^^

In my opinion is the best way to learn

@jiangcaiyang when I go to QT's forum I get redirected to https