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

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-to-add-a-forum-feature-to-our-current-application/107192
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [1월 22, 2019, 4:47오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-to-add-a-forum-feature-to-our-current-application/107192 "2019-01-22T16:47:55Z")
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### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [1월 22, 2019, 4:55오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-to-add-a-forum-feature-to-our-current-application/107192/2 "2019-01-22T16:55:13Z")

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> [@Hailee\_Miu](#):
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> Can it be integrated with Node, JS, and React?

You can integrate discourse through discourse’s API, Documentation Here:

> **[Discourse API Docs](https://docs.discourse.org/)**

> [@Hailee\_Miu](#):
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> 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:

> [@Setup DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-single-sign-on-for-discourse-sso/13045):
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> [DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true) is a core Discourse feature that allows you to configure “Single Sign-On (SSO)” to completely outsource all user registration and login from Discourse to another site. Offered to our [pro, business and enterprise hosting customers](https://discourse.org/pricing). information_source (Feb 2021) ‘[Discourse SSO](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true)’ is now ‘[DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true)’. If you are running an old version of Discourse, the settings below will be named sso\_... rather than discourse\_connect\_... The Problem Many sites wishing to integrate wit…

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