So I've been working with NodeBB for a while now and am familiar with several concepts, but one thing I'm not sure about.

If I want to add data to the "global scope" before render. How would I do that?

I know how to get data to the page templates, but that doesn't carry over into the global templates, like the sidebar menu.

How can I, for instance, fetch my categories and place them in the sidebar?

I'm getting all available categories for a user with categories.getCategoriesByPrivilege. Then I append to it with
categories.getRecentTopicReplies. I'm not getting what I want, only the top post (reply).

What I want is the following; a list of all topics with recent posts (preferably with a max limit in time range), within my available categories. What the client I'm working for want is a feed type thing with all recent activity displayed in one single flow. Then I will also drill down into specific categories but I think I've got that covered.

This is where I'm at so far:

Controllers.renderFeedPage = function (req, res) {
	if (!req.uid) {
		res.render('feed', {});
	}
	let categoriesData;
	let tree;

	async.waterfall([
		(next) => {
			categories.getCategoriesByPrivilege('categories:cid', req.uid, 'find', next);
		},
		(_categoriesData, next) => {
			categoriesData = _categoriesData;

			tree = categories.getTree(categoriesData, 0);
			categories.getRecentTopicReplies(categoriesData, req.uid, next);
		},
		() => {
			const data = {
				title: meta.config.homePageTitle || '[[pages:home]]',
				categories: tree,
			};
			res.render('feed', data);
		},
	]);
};

I haven't found a good example from the forum and I'm reading source code at this point.

If anyone has done something similar I would really appreciate the input and a nudge in the right direction.

Thanks!

Turned out I was fetching the post data wrong. I was using getPostData when i should've been using getPostsByPids.

@baris Just what I needed. Thanks a lot!!

Hi all!
I've run into an issue that when I deploy a new version of my theme/plugin, most users don't get any changes done until they do a hard refresh. This only seems to affect the client side Javascript, so everything looks updated, but in reality functionality gets lost.

Has anyone stumbled upon something similar? Is there a better way to release code?

The background in this is that I have forked Persona and built upon it, so all changes to the platform is basically in the theme. Is there a way to make sure all clients receive all updates?

Thanks!

I don't believe you can do that since what you're asking for is using server side code on the client. To do that, the entire stack would need to be available on the client and everything it does. Basically running NodeBB on the client.

What you could do is set up your own socket and return the desired data that way.

In your library.js file:

const pluginSockets = require.main.require('./src/socket.io/plugins');

// This will add to the sockets object used by NodeBB core
pluginSockets.customFunc = ((socket, dataDoToFetch, done) => {
	const response = 'This response is only a string but it can be whatever you want';
	done(null, response);
});

Then client side:

socket.emit('plugins.customFunc', dataDoToFetch, (err, data) => {
	if (err) console.log('My socket customFunc', err, data);
	else console.log('Do stuff with this', data);
});

I cannot guarantee that this will work out of the box since my setup involves a bit more complexity, but this is the basic idea. Give it a shot!

Hi all!
I've run into an issue that when I deploy a new version of my theme/plugin, most users don't get any changes done until they do a hard refresh. This only seems to affect the client side Javascript, so everything looks updated, but in reality functionality gets lost.

Has anyone stumbled upon something similar? Is there a better way to release code?

The background in this is that I have forked Persona and built upon it, so all changes to the platform is basically in the theme. Is there a way to make sure all clients receive all updates?

Thanks!

Hi all!
I was wondering if there's a simple way to add my custom fields (from the ns-custom-fields plugin) to the regular edit.tpl. I'm making a private forum aimed at professionals and would really love it if I could have everything in one place.

What I'm currently looking to add is Company, Title and possible some more in the future.

An idea I have is to just put them in the available form and then using the custom-fields "API" in the backend (on save) to store them separately.

Any ideas are welcome.

Sorry to tag you (@Nicolas, the creator) but I believe you can answer this question quite easily.

Thanks!

@baris Awesome, thanks a lot!

A related question. If I need to redirect the logged in user to their profile because I need them to fill in a field, how would I go about doing that?

At the moment I catch the hook filter:middleware.render and do a res.redirect('/user/[username]/edit'). It works great on initial render, but when I try to click somewhere the main area just goes blank.

I believe it has to do with the api call being made to re-render the page. I am not familiar enough with the inner workings to know why this is happening.

It receives the referrer but only after the first step, not after GDPR and ToS. I'm running version 1.12.1.

Re: Redirect after register/registration

In my theme I try to accomplish this like so:

library.redirectAfterRegistration = (data, callback) => {
	user.getUserData(data.uid, (err, userdata) => {
		if (err) {
			return callback(err);
		}
		const url = nconf.get('relative_path') + '/user/' + encodeURIComponent(userdata.userslug);
		data.referrer = url;

		callback(null, data);
	});
};

Any idea why it's not working? The referrer looks good '/user/[username]'.

When I remove enctype="multipart/form-data" from the form in registerComplete.tpl it works. So this has to do with encryption and maybe that I don't have HTTPS on my local machine. So then my question is, why is this not on the form that transmits the username and password?

The content I posted is just what it looked like in Firefox, Chrome parses it just fine.

So I have a weird bug that I'm struggling with. In the registration flow I have GDPR consent activated. When the first step is done, I tick both boxes and proceed. I then get the message that I have not ticked the checkboxes (which I have).

I checked around the request object and the post body is empty. All data from the previous step is in the session object. I have a dev environment and it works there and the live environment. but not my local machine.

I have been trying to trace the code, but no luck. The content gets posted, but nothing arrives in authenticationController.registerComplete (req.body).

Tried in both Chrome and Firefox.

This is what is put in the headers (Firefox):

-----------------------------20020895991986255501110031412
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="gdpr_agree_data"

on
-----------------------------20020895991986255501110031412
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="gdpr_agree_email"

on
-----------------------------20020895991986255501110031412--

Not sure if it's related, but the csrf-token is not the same as in the first registration form.

Where the interstitials are added src/user/index.js row 335. The data arriving in the callback is userData: {} and formData, which is populated with data from the first step (username etc.).