This was a fun experiment, but I moved on to another method of loading Discourse posts. Feel free to fork the project.
This project contains Stencil web components that load a list of Discourse topics in other websites. You can use it with React, Vue, or any JavaScript project.
This is a work in progress. Send me a message if you want to make a pull request.
$ npm install @j127/embed-discourse
To load Discourse topics from a domain or subdomain that is different from your Discourse forum, you will need to enable CORS for that domain.
Go to your Discourse settings and search for "cors". Look for the setting called "cors origins". Add the domain of the site that will embed the content there. For example, if you are running this repo in development mode (see below), it runs on localhost:3333, so you would add http://localhost:3333 to "cors origins". That would let your development server load topics from the forum.
Note the help text about the "cors origins" settings where it says that the DISCOURSE_ENABLE_CORS env variable must be set to true to enable CORS. You can enable that in your app.yml file.
You can use this component in React based projects.
In index.js:
import {
applyPolyfills,
defineCustomElements,
} from "@j127/embed-discourse/loader";
applyPolyfills().then(() => {
defineCustomElements();
});Then in a React component:
function App() {
return (
<div className="App">
<discourse-embed-topics forum-base-url="https://forum.example.com"></discourse-embed-topics>
</div>
);
}You can pass in other props like this if you want to filter the topics:
<discourse-embed-topics
forum-base-url="https://forum.example.com"
tag="some-tagname"
num-topics="5"
offset="5"
category-id="12"
></discourse-embed-topics>See the full instructions on how to integrate Stencil components into React.
If using Gatsby, you can load the component like this:
useEffect(() => {
async function loadTopics() {
try {
const topicLoader = require("@j127/embed-discourse/loader");
await topicLoader.defineCustomElements(window);
} catch (err) {
console.error(err);
}
}
loadTopics();
}, []);Then put the component in your JSX in the same way as for create-react-app (above).
You can import this component in Vue like this in main.js:
import {
applyPolyfills,
defineCustomElements,
} from "@j127/embed-discourse/loader";
Vue.config.ignoredElements = [/test-\w*/];
applyPolyfills().then(() => {
defineCustomElements();
});Then in a component:
<template>
<div id="app">
<discourse-embed-topics
forum-base-url="https://forum.example.com"
></discourse-embed-topics>
</div>
</template>
<script>
import { DiscourseEmbedTopics } from "@j127/embed-discourse";
export default {
name: "App",
};
</script>For more information, see the full documentation for Vue integration.
You can load the component in any HTML page (including in WordPress, Drupal, and other systems that might not be using a JavaScript framework) something like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<script type="module">
// Be sure to look at the brower support before using this technique:
// https://caniuse.com/es6-module
import { defineCustomElements } from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@j127/embed-discourse/dist/esm/loader.js";
defineCustomElements();
</script>
</head>
<body>
<discourse-embed-topics
forum-base-url="https://forum.example.com"
></discourse-embed-topics>
</body>
</html>ES6 modules only work in newer browsers, so you might want to use a module bundler/transpiler first.
See the examples/vanillajs.html file for additional examples.
For more information on using this component with plain HTML or other framworks, see the docs.
You can use this module with JS bundlers like Webpack and Rollup. See this page for example configurations.
The distribution docs might also be useful.
Run in development:
npm install
npm startTo build the component for production, run:
npm run buildTo run the unit tests for the components, run:
npm test