Rajeev is seeking a way to create a custom static page for their Discourse site, allowing them to use jQuery to call third-party APIs. They have tried two plugins, procourse-static-pages and discpage with discourse-home-page plugin, but neither fulfilled their requirements.
4ong offered to help, but initially didn’t have time to investigate the problem, which seemed related to running the plugin on localhost. Later, 4ong and 4ong were able to test the plugin on localhost, finding it worked correctly.
Rajeev asked about 4ong’s localhost setup, wondering if it was run as a Docker image or standalone application. 4ong replied that they use a standalone setup in Ubuntu (WSL2) and suggested trying the Docker way as an alternative.
yhh9xdq7dc later suggested merging the database as a potential solution.
Hi,
I need a way by which I can create a custom static page, use jquery over it for calling third-party API and use it as a home page for my site. I have already used two plugins which are as follows:
procourse-static-pages
discpage with discourse-home-page plugin
But none of above fulfill my requirement. If I use the first one then, I am not able to use any js code or jquery on the page. If I go for the second one then, It creates a category for the static page and further use topic under this created category as static page which is not so reliable. Is there any other way to do this?
Hi @Rajeev
I may be not the best one to help with localhost as I’ve never used this combination.
And don’t have time to check just now. It works well with my production domain on server.
@angus Maybe you know a quick solution in this case? Thank you!
@4ong I appreciate that you are concerning about my issue. I want to know how you setup your local host. Are you running it as docker image or standalone application by ruby server ?. Because I am running it as standalone by ember and ruby server.
