So, I'm looking to create a new theme and have a few questions. Firstly, please bear with me while I expand on the way I intend to use nodebb.

I will be using nodebb on an existing site (in development) and not as a stabd-alone application. Our own application has things like alerts, profile images, private messaging etc. so these will need to be stripped out of nodebb and replaced with our integrated solutions. We are currently working on this and are hopeful that it won't be overly difficult to accomplish.

Ideally, what we need after stripping out everything is just 2 templates:

• Category Index
• Topic Listings
• Post Page

Our site will be designed using the bootstrap framework so how hard would it be to get a seamless fit of nodebb into our site?

A rough idea of where and how we'd like it to sit and blend in:

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. And if push comes to shove and we aren't able to pull this design integration off on our own, is there anyone on the forum that takes on custom theme design work?

Regards and thank you for reading and any suggestions offered.

@psychobunny with regards to your suggestions on stripping out features, I'll have the devs take a look at the disabling options you pointed out.

Integrating with my application:

• We have integrated to some degree using the SSO plugin and hopefully it will continue to be as problem free. We are integrating this with a custom Laravel application.
• I am really not keen on using iFrames and would prefer a proper theme integration but if push comes to shove, I guess I'll have to settle for an iFrame integration.

At this stage, we're doing development in-house but of course if we run into issues I will shoot you guys an email. As for the theme design, I will definitely keep @trevor in mind. I have looked at his work and it does in fact looks very nice.

I really appreciate you taking the time to reply to me and give me your advice on where to start looking; it is very appreciated.

Regards

So, I'm looking to create a new theme and have a few questions. Firstly, please bear with me while I expand on the way I intend to use nodebb.

I will be using nodebb on an existing site (in development) and not as a stabd-alone application. Our own application has things like alerts, profile images, private messaging etc. so these will need to be stripped out of nodebb and replaced with our integrated solutions. We are currently working on this and are hopeful that it won't be overly difficult to accomplish.

Ideally, what we need after stripping out everything is just 2 templates:

• Category Index
• Topic Listings
• Post Page

Our site will be designed using the bootstrap framework so how hard would it be to get a seamless fit of nodebb into our site?

A rough idea of where and how we'd like it to sit and blend in:

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. And if push comes to shove and we aren't able to pull this design integration off on our own, is there anyone on the forum that takes on custom theme design work?

Regards and thank you for reading and any suggestions offered.

I was actually just rambling to myself while typing and wasn't really trying to make a point. BUT let's pretend I was

I understand that the main discussion here is UX based and centred around the dual composer but the subject of markup was brought up so I thought I'd share this:

https://github.com/s9e/TextFormatter

This could perhaps work as a plugin and I've heard the author is keen to see his work being used by forum developers. Just a thought ...

Hi Julian,

Really appreciate the reply. So basically swapping out things like the profile links to reflect the profile on our own app and integrating into our points systems as well as getting nodebb to use our app's registration and login should be fairly straight forward. The things that would be more complicated are integration of our own user management and member levels?

I guess there is an easy way to find out ... simply install nodebb and see what we've got to work with but it's always nice to get opinions from the people who have actually used nodebb and know it's capabilities and limitations so I truly do appreciate you taking the time to respond.

I'll see what our devs make of this tomorrow because of the solutions I've seen, nodebb ticks quite a few boxes. In the meantime, if anyone else has suggestions or input, I'd be glad to take it all on board.

Regards

Hi all,

New to the forum and wanted to wade in with a question (quite possibly more than just one). I fully appreciate the choice of forum one makes for their site is totally subjective and a matter of preference and in many instances feature requirements, cost, etc.

I set out looking for a forum that did very little and that provided a robust API or hook system that allowed me to seamlessly tie in my own application into the forum.

It would appear that nodebb has it's own user management, user levels, profiles, followers, chat, etc. There are things that my application already caters for (a custom social network application) and all I'm really after is a forum that's lean and fast and that allowed me hook into it.

Is this at all possible using nodebb? Can we have tie into it from our application and pass member levels and member level based permissions directly from our own app? Have a single sign on implementation where all registrations are strictly handled by our application. Allow users to earn points within our application for creating topics and replying within topics?

I'd be extremely grateful for any feedback the community can offer and hopefully look forward to using nodebb myself.

Regards