Ok so I have successfully done this with solr!

This is probably obvious to all expert nodebb people here, but for me I had to really look at the source code/docs/google to understand how the eco system works.

After configuring the nodebb-plugin-solr the api call out of the box looks like /api/search/KEYWORD?in=titlespost I am still trying to figure out how the plugin is hooked up with the core and how this route triggers the solr query.

Simply with ajax I just make a get request to the route and with the response I see now how I can use ajaxify.

// search function
$('form.search').on('submit', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();

    var word = $(this).find('input.searchV').val();

    $.ajax({
        url: '/api/search/'+word+'?in=titlesposts',
        type: 'get',
        dataType: 'html',
        success: function (data) {
            var parsed = JSON.parse(data);
            var results = parsed;

            console.log(results);
            
            // TODO: pass results.posts into template
            ajaxify.loadTemplate('partials/search_results_topic', function(resultItem) {
                var html = templates.parse(resultItem, results);
                $('.topic-list').html(html);
            });

        },error: function(data) {

            // TODO: error handling
            console.log(data);
        }
    });

});

@qgp9 said:

vertheless, I don't discourage you to use docker!!, I encourage it
I'm just giving a most important tip here. "Don't use docker for production before you know how to deal with a concept of a temporary container" but GOOD FOR TEST AND LEARN.

Thanks for the positive answer, it was fun playing around with docker. I ended up realizing the most simple solution was just to share one redis db, duh right. It was good to play around with docker though I did learn a bit.

On my mac I have everything working smoothly when I deployed it on my linux server everything runs fine except for the call to the Categories module.

Here is how I call the module inside my /theme.js file inside the root of my theme.

console.log(module.parent)
var Categories = module.parent.require("./Categories");

I took a look at the result of module.parent and I am not seeing categories available, but I do see it available locally.

I tried hard linking to the module ../../src/Categories but no luck.

Does anyone have a clue why this is happening?

I found the answer https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/themes/templates.html

<!-- BEGIN posts -->
<!-- IF @first -->
<h1>Main Author: {posts.username}</h1>
<!-- ENDIF @first -->
{posts.content}
<!-- IF @last -->
End of posts. Click here to scroll to the top.
<!-- ENDIF @last -->
<!-- END posts -->

If I want to preserve the functionality of the nodebb-plugin-composer-default but insert my own template how can I do that?

Ajaxify is working for all categories, but when I click to go to the profile ajaxify gets hung up.

It is showing the profile data, but I have no clue why is not rendering the profile. I have a highly customized theme, I think it's some bug I have created but I cannot debug this. I was hoping someone has a possible idea why this may be happening.

Let me know if you need more information.

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@qgp9 said:

vertheless, I don't discourage you to use docker!!, I encourage it
I'm just giving a most important tip here. "Don't use docker for production before you know how to deal with a concept of a temporary container" but GOOD FOR TEST AND LEARN.

Thanks for the positive answer, it was fun playing around with docker. I ended up realizing the most simple solution was just to share one redis db, duh right. It was good to play around with docker though I did learn a bit.

With NodeBB you can run ./nodebb start to stop you can do ./nodebb stop. Now that I have dockerized it http://nodebb-francais.readthedocs.org/projects/nodebb/en/latest/installing/docker/nodebb-redis.html I am not sure how I can interact with it.

I have followed the steps "Using docker-machine mac os x"

docker run --name my-forum-redis -d -p 6379:6379 nodebb/docker:ubuntu-redis

Then

docker run --name my-forum-nodebb --link my-forum-redis:redis -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -p 4567:4567 -P -t -i nodebb/docker:ubuntu

Then

docker start my-forum-nodebb

I had an issue with redis address in use, so I want to fix that and restart but I am not sure how? Also I would like to issue the command grunt in the project directory, again not sure how?

My question is how can I interact with an app inside a docker container as if I had direct access to the project folder itself? Am I missing something?

I hate inconsistent environments, configuring stuff locally and on cloud to create consistency, also DB content, so I figured docker would be great for this. I would like to run docker on my mac using docker-machine, but I am not sure if it has the ability to use grunt etc?

Oh damn lol I messed that up. Ok cool thanks!

Figured it out res.res.json({"test": true})

Edit:

@psychobunny why dont you do req.req.params.id inside your custom pages plugin instead of parsing the url?

@Michael-Joseph-Aubry I found to get the is I can use req.req.params, now I am going to figure out how to do res.json

I want to build my own api, I have a custom composer and a custom post type that consists of only an image and title, it acts as a feed.

Inside my theme I want to build a custom api router, for now I have figured out how to add data to the database, but I am limited in the router.

var theme = {};
var db = module.parent.require('./database');
var Categories = module.parent.require("./categories");

theme.init = function(params, callback) {
	var app = params.app;
	var router = params.router;

	app.get('/api/test/:id', function(res, req, next) {
		console.log(req.params);
		res.json(req)
		// db.set('test', req.params.id, function() {
		// 	res.json({working:true});
		// });
	});

	callback(null);
};

The app in this case is not the typical express app, it doesn't seem. So I see in the nodebb-custom-pages plugin bunny parses the url, which is ok I guess, but I am still limited it seems I can only res.render() I cant use methods like res.json().

Any advice?

@baris Holy shit it actually worked but I dont see it in the console.log?

I can require other modules that are exposed inside the module.parent but I am so confused why Categories is not exposed?