Discourse is open source forum software that powers most small to medium scale

private or special-interest forums nowadays. It's built in Ruby on Rails with an

Ember.js frontend.

Before I started learning React, when I only had a very limited understanding of

web architecture, I had an idea to install an instance of Discourse and retrofit

it to meet Radical Directory's needs. So, this is what I tried to do.

I created a DigitalOcean droplet with Ubuntu 18.04, and learned