How easy is it to port Discourse community to custom webapp later?

[merefield (Robert)]

Also consider Federation and take a look at:

Federation support for Discourse

The mail goal of this feature is to connect all the Discourse communities like how Mastodon makes use of global and local feeds to maintain a healthy and decentralized network of Mastodon instances which allows a user from one instance to connect, follow, and discuss on topics of another instance. I think this will open up a lot of new features for Discourse. The benefit Imagine being able to just connect to your own local community and then be able to get news about other topics from other Di…

There’s also a Whitelisted App for iOS and Android that leverages React Native and Webview:

Whitelisted Discourse app with Push Notifications via OneSignal

Following up on the discussion here, I have successfully set up a fork of the official Discourse app that can send push notifications via the OneSignal API. There are two parts to this: discourse-onesignal - a Discourse plugin that sends Push Notifications to OneSignal’s REST API and a Discourse Mobile Single Site App built similarly to the official Discourse Mobile app (using React Native), but using OneSignal for notifications and a simplified interface to suit the needs of a single app. I…