Using Discourse to add a forum feature to our current application?

[Hailee_Miu]

I am researching different avenues that my company can to take for adding a forum feature to our current application.

• Can it be integrated with Node, JS, and React?
• Can we use our current user login information to also login to the forum?

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

@Hailee_Miu

Can it be integrated with Node, JS, and React?

You can integrate discourse through discourse’s API, Documentation Here:
https://docs.discourse.org/

@Hailee_Miu

Can we use our current user login information to also login to the forum?

You probably can, Discourse supports SSO out of the box but your current authentication server needs to allow authentication to applications like discourse for that to work.

More details here:

DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso)

(Feb 2021) ‘Discourse SSO’ is now ‘DiscourseConnect’. If you are running an old version of Discourse, the settings below will be named sso_... rather than discourse_connect_... The DiscourseConnect protocol allows you to completely outsource all user registration/login in Discourse. The Problem Many sites wishing to integrate with a Discourse site want to keep all user registration in a separate site. In such a setup all login operations should be outsourced to that di…

[Hailee_Miu]

Also, is it able to simply embed into our current application window? So we can keep the nav bar and branding?

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

@Hailee_Miu

is it able to simply embed into our current application window?

Technically You can but there are a lot of reasons why you shouldn’t.

@Hailee_Miu

keep the nav bar and branding?

You can keep your logos/branding in discourse as well, Apart from this, there are ample of theme components available that will allow you to add your navigation links to discourse nav bar.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Can you define what you mean by “our current application?” Do you mean an Android app, or a website, or…?

[Hailee_Miu]

A web application that we are creating

[Falco]

We don’t support running Discourse inside an iframe.

The recommended approach is running Discourse in another domain and adding your main site look and feel to Discourse (color scheme, fonts, header, footer, logo, etc).