At least 10 seconds to restart NodeBB and more 10 seconds for my plugin to load some stuff from my database and do other startups. In the case below, I simply added a space in my subscribe2.tpl and saved it.

>> File "node_modules\nodebb-plugin-myplugin\templates\subscribe2.tpl" changed.
  started
2018-11-04T07:57:31.402Z [19060] - info: [themes] Using theme nodebb-theme-persona
2018-11-04T07:57:32.324Z [19060] - info: [build] Building in parallel mode
2018-11-04T07:57:32.326Z [19060] - info: [build] templates  build started
2018-11-04T07:57:33.295Z [19060] - info: [build] templates  build completed in 0.969sec
2018-11-04T07:57:33.296Z [19060] - info: [build] Asset compilation successful. Completed in 0.97sec.
2018-11-04T07:57:34.021Z [6952] - info: Initializing NodeBB v1.10.1 http://127.0.0.1:8081
2018-11-04T07:57:37.405Z [6952] - warn: [upgrade/appendPluginScripts] Unable to read plugin.json for plugin `nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended`. Skipping.
2018-11-04T07:57:39.417Z [6952] - info: [themes] Using theme nodebb-theme-persona
2018-11-04T07:57:39.920Z [6952] - info: [plugins] Plugins OK
2018-11-04T07:57:41.873Z [6952] - info: Routes added
2018-11-04T07:57:42.053Z [6952] - info: NodeBB Ready
2018-11-04T07:57:42.058Z [6952] - info: Enabling 'trust proxy'
2018-11-04T07:57:42.061Z [6952] - info: NodeBB is now listening on: 127.0.0.1:8081

When I said "shutdown my server" and "starting it again" I meant locally, not production. So I'm not really worried about the impact to my users, but the development speed instead.

Sadly, this is still very slow. Thanks for the help though.

So I'm doing some changes to a custom page that I've got. Every time I change something, I need to do a nodebb rebuild in order to see my changes in effect.

Is there a way to disable this and force NodeBB to build the template every time it gets rendered? This way I could make changes to my .tpl file, save it, press F5 and I would see my changes in effect without having to shutdown my server, doing a nodebb rebuild and starting my server again.

I feel like I'm missing something...

I guess preload hook is what I needed:

plugin.preload = function (params, callback) {

    params.app.get('/', function (req, res, next) {
        if (req.query.ad) {
            res.send('Hiii')
        } else {
            next()
        }
    })

    callback()
}

So I want to do this:

1. If someone opens www.myhomepage.com, then he will be redirected to the forum
2. If someone opens www.myhomepage.com?page=lol.html then he will be redirected to my custom lol.html page

I'm aware that I can create a custom route from my plugin, but this is not what I want.

I'm currently using the following hooks:

"hooks": [
    {
        "hook": "static:app.load",
        "method": "init"
    },
    {
        "hook": "action:post.save",
        "method": "postSaved"
    },
    {
        "hook": "filter:post.create",
        "method": "postCreated"
    },
    {
        "hook": "filter:topic.create",
        "method": "topicCreated"
    }
]

I tried using helpers.setupPageRoute on / but it simply doesn't work, probably because the route is being processed before the plugin routes are added.

Is it possible to achieve what I want?

@baris Indeed, I was logged with admin account. I tried with a regular user and it works correctly. The "Upload Image" button does not show and uploading with CTRL+V gives me the following error:

Thanks for clarifying and sorry for the misunderstanding.

I'm on NodeBB 1.9.1. This is my ACP:

And this is how a reply looks:

Despite disabling uploads everywhere, I can still CTRL+V a picture saved in the clipboard or manually click the "Upload Image" button.

Is there another setting that I'm missing that disables completely all uploads?