You can try openshift. You can host there an instance of nodebb with little activity.

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(docs.nodebb.org)

You can test performance on my test forum hosted on the openshift free plan if you want:
http://nodebb-forumax.rhcloud.com/ (no real content on there, and is in spanish)

Hi guys.

I'm running nodebb locally (0.7.0) with mongodb and node.js v.12.03 and would like to start developing some plugins.
I come from a java background and i'm totally new to node.js. I was wondering what IDE do you use,** and i'm really interested in how do you debug code.**

I'm trying to use Webstorm as an IDE, and make use of the debugger.

I was a bunch of topics in the forum that ask this question, but all of them seems to be quite old, I would like to know your suggestion in order to have a comfortable development environment at the moment (things might have changed since the older topics where written).

PS: I throw here the error i'm getting when i try to debbug nodebb whit webstorm so hopefully someone can help. But please, make your suggestions of different IDES editors or tools. Any link, tutorial or reference is highly appreciated.

/usr/bin/node --debug-brk=49016 --nolazy app.js
Debugger listening on port 49016
24/5 16:27 [3566] - info: NodeBB v0.7.0-dev Copyright (C) 2013-2014 NodeBB Inc.
...

24/5 16:28 [3566] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-theme-lavender] This plugin may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing.
24/5 16:28 [3566] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-theme-lavender] In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset plugin="nodebb-theme-lavender".

Error: listen EADDRINUSE
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:746:11)
    at Agent.Server._listen2 (net.js:1156:14)
    at listen (net.js:1182:10)
    at Agent.Server.listen (net.js:1267:5)
    at Object.start (_debugger_agent.js:20:9)
    at startup (node.js:86:9)
    at node.js:814:3

Thanks in advance!

@Drew-Llewellyn that is incredible. Thanks!!

The plugin has been updated to be compatible with Nodebb 1.0.0+ (tested on version 1.0.3). Plugin version 1.0.1.

• https://github.com/exo-do/nodebb-plugin-ignore-users

The plugin is now i18n ready with support included for the following laguages: English, Spanish, Galician.

The Plugin now does not requiere to edit the tpls of the user section.

The plugin is theme-Persona-oriented sinde, in order to now change the tpls to show the new data, all modifications to the view are made on client side. Testing when running over another theme with different tag layout would be needed and modifications might be needed.

Here are some screenshots of the plugin in-use:

A message of a user i ignore:

A message when i stop ignoring that user:

Access to my user ignored list:

Content of the ignored list:

User removed from ignored list:

Ignore/Unignore user from him/her profile page:

Any contribution/feedback is really appreciated, and any suggestion of making the plugin more compatible regarding themes (because of the modifications client side) is really appreciated too.

Regards.

@bernatixer have a look at:

Deploy NodeBB in a subfolder of a site https://community.nodebb.org/post/43630

Hope it helps.

I will collab in the Galician translation if it gets addes to transifex.

Edit: just saw your link point to transifex, will definately help to translate.

Cheers.

@julian it looks nice. Good work, keep it up.

@jongarrison don't know if it can be compared, but at least the scripts client side are overriden if you define the same 'define'. Could be the same behaviour if you declare a tpl with same name and path on your plugin? Or maybe declare it for the same route?

Haven't tried it yet, but i'm curious.

Maybe it's just something silly...

@noobbb i think you could do that with custom css or directly modifying the theme.

With custom css you can apply the background-image property to the body or other selector you may want the background in.

Modifying the theme you can to that in the .less of the theme itself.

@devmattrick i think you can use grunt to benefit from file refreshing and to avoid restarting nodebb on plugin development.

nodebb-grunt/README.md at master · NodeBB-Community/nodebb-grunt

Comfortable development on NodeBB plugins, themes, etc. - nodebb-grunt/README.md at master · NodeBB-Community/nodebb-grunt

GitHub (github.com)

Haven't tried it myself and probably another devs can tell you if there's another option or an updated one.

Regards.

No, it is not possible.

Github pages is a service to host static pages only. Since nodebb need a database and server side code to run, you can not host it on github.io.

There are some free hosting solutions that you cn use instead like for example openshift (there are more but i dont remember names right now, theres some posts on this community about them, try to search nodebb free hosting).

You can also try cloud9, theres a nice tutorial made by @pichalite Setting up NodeBB on cloud 9 https://community.nodebb.org/topic/7983/setting-up-nodebb-on-cloud-9

Seems to be fixed now. Didn't get any notifications now.

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If your question is related to changes you want to make on your instance, you can try the Redactor Composer Plugin, it works with bbcode if i'm not wrong, that is it would support what you're looking for: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/6093/official-redactor-composer-now-available-in-0-7-1?_=1469356029163&page=1

The dropdown of post tools is not behaving properly when options are displayed on mobile.

@AgentZerp_ man whats wrong with you?

People already answered your question with a solution thats it's free and you can do it by yourself. Also it has been pointed out that a guidd to do it step by step exists o de nodebb documentation.

I'm sure nobody will host you anything for free when the only problem is that you don't want to move a finger.

@sergej-saveljev As I understand, @Julian and @Pitaj just pointed out that the functionality it is not going to be in the core of nodebb, but it is possible to achive that behaviour via a plugin.

As @Julian explained, you would have to use the slug, when a request its made, and search it across the post or category indexes, so you find the corresponding cid, pid etc to access it.

I'm not a plugin expert, i'm sure @pitaj can explain the plugin approach to you a lot of better.

@Nur https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/installing/cloud.html

The site that holds the digitalocean step by step tutorial seems to be down, but may be temporarily since is owned by @psychobunny . I think theres docker support too for nodeb now.

Edit: https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/installing/docker.html?highlight=docker

@Codejet I´ll check it on iphone 4S in a couple of hours in this installation. I'll let you know.

Helping with spanish too.

@sergej-saveljev you're in the right place then. I can't guide throught across the steps of creating it, because i'm just entering in the nodebb world too. But using the documentation and asking your doubts in the forum (plugin development category) i think you will get it to work.