BBCode

RpNation's Official BBCode Implementation for Discourse

See: [https://www.rpnation.com]

The goal of this repo and plugin is to provide users with the BBCode suite that they have grown accustomed to when it comes to using our site before our migration to Discourse and make sure that old posts rebake correctly. Above in the chart is marked our status on each BBCode which will hopefully co-exist in tandom even with the markdown/htlm versions provided in the box experience by the Discourse Software.

Features/Planned

Ⓜ️ = The BBCode also has a markdown version

🚧 = In progress or needs CSS.

⌨️ = BBCode also has an HTML equivalent.

🎉 = Powered by official Discourse Addon.

☠️ = Do not proceed. BBob, Markdown, and/or Discourse do not like this code. Unable to be rebaked.

General

• Refactor stylesheets to fit common discourse styling variables

Text Formatting

• Headers & Sub-Headers Ⓜ️
• Highlights
• Justified Text
• Blockquotes
• Sub Script ⌨️
• Super Script ⌨️
• Google Font Library
• HTML Comment⌨️
• Paragraph Indent
• Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough Ⓜ️
• Color
• Font Size
• Left, Center, Right
• Spoiler
• Line Break
• NOBR/No Line Break
• Inline Spoiler

Layout & Design

• Dividers
• Image Float
• Fieldsets
• Sides
• Tabs
• Accordions
• Tables now using markdown tables
• Center Block
• Background
• Border
• Scroll Box
• Div Box
• Anchors
• Rows & Columns

Media & Embeds

• Google Docs(PDF) Switching to native iframes.
• Height Restrict
• Image
• Challonge - Add as an iframe supported site in settings instead.

Aesthetics

• Print
• Text Message
• Blocks
• Progress Bar
• Sticky Note
• Mail
• Newspaper
• Checks
• Font Awesome Icons
• OOC

Credit

❤️ to Nikolay Kost (JiLiZART) for BBob GitHub - JiLiZART/BBob: ⚡️Blazing-fast js-bbcode-parser, bbcode js, that transforms and parses to AST with plugin support in pure javascript, no dependencies

Steps to start local Discourse docker

Inside the discourse directory, run

d/boot_dev -p

d/ember-cli -u

To kill the container

d/shutdown_dev

For more, see the Discourse Docker Guide

Architecture

The architecture of this project is for all BBCode Parser related code to be contained in /bbcode-src, which would then be minified into a module and added to the appropriate location in /assets/javascripts to be used by the discourse plugin proper. This is to work around the weird way discourse requires libraries to be loaded in. There will be a Rollup config and github action setup to automate minifying and moving the module.

Honestly, if anyone has a better solution, please send help.