I'd love to see some kind of native app for NodeBB forums on iOS. I only care about iOS, but I imagine an Android app would be useful too.

An app like this as I imagine it would take an approach similar to that of the Slack app. In case you're not familiar, the Slack native apps involve signing into an individual Slack channel, and then having a way to switch between them. It doesn't try to manage multiple channels at once within the app, a channel always takes up the entire screen.

I could imagine a NodeBB app that allowed users to sign into multiple forums, and switch between them. The main feature of this app that the web platform could not offer would be push notifications, whenever you receive a notification on the forum you receive a native notification on the device.

This could be a pretty simple app, but I think providing some kind of native platform on mobile devices would be beneficial.

Yeah. Thanks for that. I forgot to mention, though, it's not just parsing the HTML of a page that's sub-optimal, but also downloading it in the first place.

This project isn't meant to only work on one site, otherwise I would just hard-code it, so a plugin won't work. Is there any public file that might expose response.locals.config.siteTitle without my writing a plugin?

I'm trying to build a little wrapper around the API (the one you get at by prefixing a URL with api/). Is there any place in the API where I could find the title of a forum?

By the "title" I mean the bit after the halfpipe in the page title. For this, it's "NodeBB", for this forum it would be "omz:forum," etc.

I could search the HTML for a <title> tag and then find the bit after the |, but using a full-fledged HTML parser to find the title of the forum seems rather like cracking a nut with a sledgehammer, especially when I'm using a JSON parser everywhere else. I'd rather not add another huge requirement to my project for such a simple task.

Does the JSON API expose the forum title anywhere? If not, where can I easily find this information? I'm just resistant to the idea of pulling out a huge HTML parser only to find the title of a forum...

Also, an API documentation would not be unappreciated, even an auto-generated thing that describes the fields for each of the types of API pages.

I'd love to see some kind of native app for NodeBB forums on iOS. I only care about iOS, but I imagine an Android app would be useful too.

An app like this as I imagine it would take an approach similar to that of the Slack app. In case you're not familiar, the Slack native apps involve signing into an individual Slack channel, and then having a way to switch between them. It doesn't try to manage multiple channels at once within the app, a channel always takes up the entire screen.

I could imagine a NodeBB app that allowed users to sign into multiple forums, and switch between them. The main feature of this app that the web platform could not offer would be push notifications, whenever you receive a notification on the forum you receive a native notification on the device.

This could be a pretty simple app, but I think providing some kind of native platform on mobile devices would be beneficial.