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!

Thanks for the clarification @PitaJ! I did a lot of experimenting but I guess I didn't get the right combination. I think I never tried naming the module with its extension. That might have been it. For anyone who might be interested in the actual solution, here it is:

In file-explorer.js:

define('azure/file-explorer', ['components'], function (components) {
	const FileExplorer = {};

	FileExplorer.init = function () {
		// Init stuff here	
	});

	return FileExplorer;
});

In plugin.json:

"modules": {
	"azure/file-explorer.js": "static/lib/file-explorer.js"
},

In admin.js:

define('admin/plugins/azure', ['settings', 'azure/file-explorer'], function (settings, fileExplorer) {
	fileExplorer.init();
});

In main.js:

$(document).ready(function () {
	require(['azure/file-explorer'], (fileExplorer) => {
		fileExplorer.init();
	});
});

Is there some way to hide all topics within a category from all feeds (recent, popular, new, the digest)?

I need the topics to be accessible (and usable) to all users directly, but not searchable or showing up at random.

Thank you for the response @gotwf!

The issue is that I cannot delete an invite if I leave the inviter uid blank. I would think that an error would've been sent if this would cause problems. I have added a field in my plugin that will let admins select who will work as the inviter. in my case it's a system user, like no_reply@service...

The sender is a no-person email so that's not the issue. The issue is that the invite needs to (in the system) be sent my a user. Which doesn't make sense in my opinion. It's great if an admin sends an invite, but why prevent me from deleting an invite that doesn't have an error?

Is it possible to send an email invitation without having a user attached to it?

I'm trying to use User.sendInvitationEmail(uid, email), but if I send in null, undefined or 0 as the uid I get no feedback that it's wrong. What I do get is, in the ACP, no ability to delete the invite.

All I get is

I have a locked down forum but I'm working on a feature to automate the invitation process based on some parameters. So in the end I need to run something automagically.

The delete function used is this I guess?

@baris That's it! Thanks a lot.

I'm trying to figure this out. Is there a way to add a listener for a server side hook in runtime without adding it to plugin.json?

Something like Plugins.registerHook('filter:groups.get', myRuntimeFunc).

The plugin I'm creating would benefit from this so the user have more control over when data should be fetched from an external API. I believe the answer will be no, but I need to ask.

Thanks for the clarification @PitaJ! I did a lot of experimenting but I guess I didn't get the right combination. I think I never tried naming the module with its extension. That might have been it. For anyone who might be interested in the actual solution, here it is:

In file-explorer.js:

define('azure/file-explorer', ['components'], function (components) {
	const FileExplorer = {};

	FileExplorer.init = function () {
		// Init stuff here	
	});

	return FileExplorer;
});

In plugin.json:

"modules": {
	"azure/file-explorer.js": "static/lib/file-explorer.js"
},

In admin.js:

define('admin/plugins/azure', ['settings', 'azure/file-explorer'], function (settings, fileExplorer) {
	fileExplorer.init();
});

In main.js:

$(document).ready(function () {
	require(['azure/file-explorer'], (fileExplorer) => {
		fileExplorer.init();
	});
});

Only thing that seems to work is using define and placing it in either scripts or acpScripts, but not in both.

@julian, I tried what you suggested and I'm not sure I made a mistake but it doesn't seem like it's accepted as a module. I tried:

"modules": {
	"file-explorer.js": "static/lib/file-explorer.js"
},

and the require it require(['file-explorer.js'], (fileExplorer) => {...}, require(['file-explorer'], (fileExplorer) => {...} and require('file-explorer.js', (fileExplorer) => {...} but nothing seems to work.

It's defined like this:

define('azure/file-explorer', ['components'], function (components) {...});

also tried to do module.exports = fileExplorer without the define part.

Tried to require it with it's defined name azure/file-explorer, but no cigar. The fileExplorer comes out as undefined.

So I'm having an issue which I hope you, the community, can shed some light on. I'm currently building a plugin to incorporate a external storage solution on Azure (not replacing post and topic file storage).

I made a client script that I want to be able to use both in the admin panel and in the forum views. I use define('my-thing/the-script') and add it to plugin.json under scripts.

But I cannot require it in the admin script. Not with require or by placing it in the define function.

I tried to add it in acpScript in plugin.json, but then everything broke.

My last attempt was to make a clone of the original script and appending it with -admin. So, script name, define name, everything. And it worked.

So I guess my question is: Is it not possible to add the same script to both backend and frontend. They both serve the same purpose so just duplicating it doesn't really make sense.

That was it. Had no idea that this was a thing. Thanks a lot @baris!