Triggering account creation/login on external service when a user logs in on discourse

[renato (Renato Atilio)]

@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.

@Chris_Dawson

But, if you think there is a straightforward way to build a plugin that adds this route to discourse,

I’d start by reading

Creating Routes in Discourse and Showing Data

Over time Discourse has grown in complexity and it can be daunting for beginners to understand how data gets all the way from the back end Ruby on Rails application to the Ember.js application in front. This tutorial is meant to show the full lifecycle of a request in Discourse and explain the steps necessary if you want to build a new page with its own URL in our application. URLs First I always prefer to start thinking of features in terms of the URLs to access them. For example let’s say we…