Embeddable widgets

[daveaglick]

Provide a widget that could be added to other sites for project, blog, etc. items. Some questions/thoughts:

• Should the widget be copy-paste HTML?
  • That means it'll be evergreen and there's no danger of Discover .NET ever going away
  • On the other hand it means the widget won't update as the data changes and won't get style or feature updates
• If the widget is embedded, what mechanism?
  • iframe pointing to Discover-hosted HTML?
  • Discover-hosted HTML but downloaded by JS and added to the DOM?
  • Generated on the fly by JS using Discover API data?
• Probably want a standard "Powered by Discover .NET" link or something in the widget

[daveaglick]

Maybe the best approach is a remotely generated and hosted widget but the JS that fetches it has a locally rendered fallback in case the Discover site ever goes offline.

[daveaglick]

Also consider creating oEmbed endpoints once a widget is available: https://oembed.com/