NodeBB Hands-On Theming Guide, Part 1

By Andrew Rodrigues in NodeBB 4 Comments

So I’ve finally gotten the time to sit down and get started on this guide. Not a lot of custom themes have been made so far, with a lot of our energies lately been focused on the plugin system (as well as the soft-launch of our hosting platform). A lot of inspiration has come from Convoe… at this point, he probably knows the theming system better than I do. The last theme I made was about a month ago for One Hundred Free Books and since then I haven’t really gotten a chance to play around. So here goes, I hope this is useful to someone and would love to see one or two great themes come out as a result of this!


3 - Overriding Bootstrap Lavender Theme for NodeBB


As usual, if reading isn’t really your thing just hop over to the theme’s repository and start tinkering away :)

Click through to proceed to part 1 of this guide. :)

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NodeBB v0.2.1 has been released

By Andrew Rodrigues in NodeBB 0 Comment

In a nutshell: DBAL, MongoDB as an alternative DB, Notification Enhancements, tons of new Plugins, Access Control, more Language packs!

Check out the official release blog post here. Have you liked NodeBB yet on Facebook? :)

 

Happy New Year! New year, new NodeBB release :). Quite a few features made it in as well as a bunch of bug fixes of course. I think the ones I’m really excited about are the notification based enhancements. It’s easy to miss out on notifications if you are viewing a different tab, or have the browser minimized, so we added a couple of features to make them more prominent.

First off, we added a notification counter in the favicon:

favicon-notification

There’s a new plugin out called Desktop Notifications which alerts you of new @mentions, replies to your threads, new chat messages, etc. even if your browser is minimized. The only other app I know of that uses the HTML5 Notifications API is Gmail.

desktop-notifications

Interestingly enough, it works on mobile as well – sends you a push notification even if your browser is running in the background. Unfortunately, it seems like mobile browser support is fairly limited for now.

notifications_mobile

Click through to see what else was added in v0.2.1 :)

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