How do I customise telescope-base? - meteor

Question

In the open source example http://www.telesc.pe/, how do I remove digest and daily view items from the view menu? Do I need to modify telescope-base?

Answer 1

You need to create a new package to hold your customizations. You can look at the Telescope documentation, look at existing theme packages such as base and hubble, or copy and adapt the telescope-blank package.
Once you have your new package, you can simply overwrite the viewNav menu. For example:
viewNav = [
{
route: 'posts_top',
label: 'top'
},
{
route: 'posts_new',
label: 'new'
},
{
route: 'posts_best',
label: 'best'
}
];
The daily view is provided by another package, telescope-daily, so you'll need to remove it from the app if you don't want to use it:
meteor remove telescope-daily
(Note that the digest view will also be extracted out as its own package eventually, but right now it's still part of the core)

Answer 2

You can try this :
Create a config.js under client/ and put the following code inside :
while(viewNav.length > 0){
viewNav.pop();
}
viewNav.push({
route: 'posts_top',
label: 'Top'
});
// etc...
This will load after telescope-base which is responsible for exporting viewNav an array used to control which items are inserted in the menu.