What I’m trying to do:
I’m trying to create a membership community management app in Anvil. I have chosen Discourse as the platform for the discussion forum but everything else (payments, emails, admin stuff etc.) will be done through Anvil.
I want to have a single user account associated with a member when they log into the Anvil app (for some admin stuff) and when they log into the Discourse community. I have done some Googling and it seems possible to set up SSO with Discourse and use Anvil’s user service as the identity provider.
I figure the Anvil employees know a thing or two about Discourse 
, how have you handled this if at all? Any tips?
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You’re on the right track! You can implement HTTP endpoints that follow discourse’s SSO protocol, and it will work 
(I don’t have sample code I can share; the SSO into this Discourse community is built into the user accounts for the Anvil editor itself, not the Users service, but the integration process was similar!)
One Anvil-specific tip: You’ll want to enable cross-origin sessions for the relevant HTTP endpoint(s), otherwise Anvil’s default XSRF protection will kick in and your endpoints will execute without knowledge of the logged-in user!
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Thanks for the tip! That’s encouraging - will share what I’ve learned when it’s done
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