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!!

Thank you @baris for the swift response. I have no need for backwards compatibility in my theme, so I think I will hold off on bigger changes.

As the subject states. Is there a timeplan for 1.13.0. As I understand there will be some big rewrites required for API-heavy plugins and themes.

As an outsider it looks like most of the work is done on your part?
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/milestone/87

Thank you @PitaJ for pointing me in the right direction. I adapted my code to the link you sent me.

(function (factory) {
	if (typeof module === 'object' && module.exports) {
		factory(require.main.require('benchpressjs'));
	} else {
		require(['benchpress'], factory);
	}
}(function (Benchpress) {
	const logger = (data) => {
		console.log('Logger helper', data);
		return '';
	};

	const customHelpers = {
		register,
		logger,
	};

	function register() {
		Object.keys(customHelpers).forEach(function (helperName) {
			Benchpress.registerHelper(helperName, customHelpers[helperName]);
		});
	}

	register();

	if (typeof module === 'object' && module.exports) {
		module.exports = customHelpers;
	}
}));

Just by doing this made it work client side. But then it stopped working server side. That was easily fixed though by running helpers.register in my library file.

const helpers = require('./lib/helpers');

helpers.register();

Hope this helpes someone!

So I had similar issues as the original post. The helpers run fine server side. but not on the client. If I have a helper on the profile page it works fine if I type the address and browse to it, but if I navigate to the profile the helper does not run.

What I tried is what was written in the forked post.

Re: help with using helpers inside my theme

So I found this topic that helped someone getting helpers to the client. Unfortunately I'm getting TypeError: Benchpress is undefined client side. I followed the instructions in the topic and have installed benchpressjs in my packages (for the theme), but no cigar.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

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

Thank you @baris for your reply. I know I can append to the templates data. My issue is that I can't access that data in the mobile menu (on the left).

I'm making a custom menu with a hierarchy of categories and also grouped in open and private. So I create that hierarchy in backend (with the hook you suggested) and it works great in every template, but it doesn't seem to be accessible when I do for instance:

<!-- BEGIN privateCategories -->
  <!-- IMPORT partials/menuItem.tpl -->
<!-- END privatecategories -->

The only thing accessible in the config object, which as I understand is added in the frontend load. Again, it works in the "main" templates, not in the menu (which replaces partials/slideout-menu.tpl).

Using Persona by the way.

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?

@baris Nice! Thank you so much! Exactely what I was looking for.

When you fetch the categories a user can see by privilege, is there a way of telling whether the category is visible for everyone or if they are "private"?

Is there a way I can get the privileges assigned to a user and compare those to the privileges required for a category?

I'm browsing source right now, but if anyone have the answer on the top of their head, please give me a hand to save time.