# Using Discourse in a web app **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-in-a-web-app/57455 **Category:** Development **Created:** [February 15, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-in-a-web-app/57455 "2017-02-15T22:49:29Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![joebuhlig](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joebuhlig/32/193054_2.png) [@joebuhlig](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joebuhlig) #### Post date: [February 16, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-in-a-web-app/57455/3 "2017-02-16T02:02:40Z")
Another option would be to look into embedding a topic on your document page. It would require the user to click into the comments to leave a reply but that’s no different than any other commenting structure. > [@Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-discourse-comments-via-javascript/31963): > > Discourse has the ability to embed the comments from a topic in a remote site using a Javascript API that creates an IFRAME. For an example of this in action, check out [Coding Horror’s blog](http://blog.codinghorror.com/welcome-to-the-internet-of-compromised-things/#discourse-comments). The blog is run via [Ghost](https://ghost.org/) but the comments are embedded from his [Discourse forum](http://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/welcome-to-the-internet-of-compromised-things/3550). One important thing to note with this setup is that users have to navigate to your forum to post replies. This is intentional, as we feel that the posting interface on a Discourse forum is currently much richer than what we … --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-in-a-web-app/57455)._