I have a JS plugin on my discourse site. This JS uses pocketbase to store data. Pocketbase is a “serverless” sqlite service that permits me to store files and JSON blobs. Pocketbase has a terrific JWT-based auth system so that once a user has an auth token, then can securely store data directly into…

There are other guides, the date at the top is the topic creation but anything in Documentation should be up-to-date – let us know if you find any problems. [image] Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin Developer Guides Building a plugi…

I don’t know enough of your stack or use case, but I think I’ve solved a similar problem before, and some ideas may be useful for you. I have a Next.js app where I need the client-side to have a valid JWT to make calls to my backend API if there’s a Discourse session. For this I use Discourse as m…

Awesome, I’ll give this a try. Thanks so much.

@renato A few questions if you don’t mind. Does this mean I need to delegate the entirety of user management auth to the connect app? I am not sure if I want to do this, if so. If connect is just an additional layer on top of the existing discourse user auth management, then that seems workable. B…

My answer assumes you are using Discourse as your identity provider (with its login/signup UIs), and wants to keep it that way. [image] Chris Dawson: If connect is just an additional layer on top of the existing discourse user auth management, then that seems workable. On the Discourse side,…

Thanks so much for the discussion. I read the link: Use Discourse as an identity provider (SSO, DiscourseConnect) - #8 by reverend_paco But, I think this is if I want to send my users to a secondary site and manage auth there. In my case, I have a piece of JS that runs on the discourse site. And,…

[image] Chris Dawson: But, I think this is if I want to send my users to a secondary site and manage auth there. Quite the opposite: if you have a separate “site” (PocketBase in this example) and want Discourse to be the source of truth for user/auth management – like my Next.js example. […

Great, I’m excited to read that. I started looking at the sample skeleton plugin ( GitHub - discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton: Template for Discourse plugins · GitHub ) and was a bit underwhelmed because it has no documentation at all. At first glance I need to ask: is this tutorial adding code to …

[image] Renato Atilio: the date at the top is the topic creation but anything in Documentation should be up-to-date I have the impression this hasn’t been updated yet [image] Creating Routes in Discourse and Showing Data Open the file app/assets/javascripts/admin/routes/admin-route-map.js…

Ok, I tried to follow the instructions. I tried to use this command rake plugin:create[pocketbase-auth] inside the container (since rake would not be available outside, right). But, it fails hard because I don’t have git setup inside the container. As I read further, it appears I need to specify th…

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Chris_Dawson (Chris Dawson) December 6, 2024, 1:23am 12

An update: I took your advice and developed a plugin. It works great and does exactly what I needed. Thanks for your help.

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