Sharepoint Online spfx webpart

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The discussion revolves around integrating Discourse with SharePoint Online. glwolverton initially inquired about an SPFX webpart for SharePoint Online. However, Falco advised against integrating Discourse as a Client Side Web Part, citing potential user experience issues and recommending a dedicated subdomain instead.

adamgpope shared a different use case, where they successfully embedded a dynamic activity feed into a SharePoint site using the Discourse embed instructions. However, they expressed interest in replacing this method with a configurable SPFX webpart. Ibejammin2 also expressed interest in a similar solution, highlighting the need for a summary feed integration with O365 SharePoint sites.

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Anyone built or know of an xpfx webpart for SP online?

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What does this have to do with Discourse?

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i am looking to add Discourse into my corporate SP online and did not want to iframe it

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I don’t think you will be able to integrate it properly as a Client Side Web Part in Share Point. Putting Discourse in an iFrame also results in a bad user experience.

Discourse assumes it has full control over the page, and our recommendation is for it to live in a dedicated subdomain, where it can be themed to your company visual identity.

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Thank you very much for that response…

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Perhaps I’ve a different use case than the OP; we don’t want to embed Discourse in its entirety into a Community’s Sharepoint CMS, but rather to provide a dynamic activity feed to drive people to engage with one another in Discourse. As such, I’ve been able to embed a list of topics filtered to a tag or category into a Sharepoint site without any dev effort by:

  1. Following the highly configurable embed instructions here
  2. Saving the result as an .aspx page
  3. Uploading the page to the site’s asset library
  4. Going to a modern page and pasting the URL of the uploaded .aspx page into an ‘Embed’ webpart

Would be great to replace that clunky cluster-fudge with a configurable sPFX webpart… :wink:

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I am also looking for a solution like this, being able to pull a summary feed into a O365 sharepoint site would be amazing for us.

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