Switch to persona and see if it's rendering, if it is working fine there you might have a syntax error in your template that is causing templates.js to lock up.

@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.

Also, you'll want to add new routes to params.router, which is a special router just for plugins, and doesn't interfere with existing routes 😄

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

@baris thanks. altho the typical plugin doesn't do it, the settings apis are promisified. you don't wait, u get junk..

adding .then() in the non async using functions solves the problem

@yariplus lol yeah would be more simpler, I know about that method, but I went with the longer approach because my first few tries I had issues so I made assumptions that it was data type or something. Thanks though, that method definitely makes the code look cleaner.

Here is what I have done, I finally figured out how to get a list of categories, I kind of like this method but I hate having to pass an array, but it is what it is.

var theme = {}; var catLength = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]; var Categories = module.parent.require("./Categories"); theme.init = function(params, callback) { Categories.getCategoriesData(catLength, function(err, data) { data.forEach(function(something, index) { if(something) { console.log(data[index].name); } }); }); callback(); }; module.exports = theme;

Cool now I have all the categories and the next step is to create a dynamic header based on the categories, the problem is I am so confused on how to do that, I think I am missing something very obvious!

I am inside a theme and I want to pass this into the precompiled template! 🙂

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 -->

Good answer!!!! I am doing that!