My organisation runs a web application and a forum, as well as a few other applications like bitwarden. I’ve containerised everything to achieve dev/prod parity and a simple development setup using docker compose. We use a very similar compose file to run it in production and it works very well for …

Well, the good news is that most of the time, you shouldn’t have to! Unless you’re developing specific integrations against the forum or theming for the forum itself , the Discourse site can mostly sit on its own outside the rest of your stack. There are options to do a Docker-based development ins…

In that case, I’d recommend doing SSO with a live staging site. Set up a second copy of discourse on the same-ish hosting, give everyone admin, and create SSO Provider Secrets for localhost:3000, localhost:4000, localhost:4001, *.cluster.local, etc as necessary. Everyone on your development team w…

How can I include discourse in my local dev stack?

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timwis (Tim Wisniewski) September 12, 2020, 2:24pm 3

Actually it’s pretty critical because I want to use discourse as the sign on system for my applications. Without it, that will mean users can’t login locally.

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How can I include discourse in my local dev stack?

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