Ask HN: Building Great Embedded Web Apps?

by bentice on 1/7/2024, 10:53:44 AM with 3 comments
I’m building a web app that will primarily be embedded on my clients websites in an iframe or by other means. I am looking for articles, guides, or talks on best practices for building embedded web apps. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Some issues I’m encountering: - Building UI's with no scrolling - Responsive design within iframes - Testing different scenarios my iframe might be in

I really like Typeform’s embedded forms. Anyone have other products which have really good embedded functionality?

  • by pacifika on 1/7/2024, 11:20:15 AM

    Implementing these I’ve found it useful if the iframes content supports iframeresize (http://davidjbradshaw.github.io/iframe-resizer/), window message passing of url changes to the host site via the dom, and typically supports google analytics (usually not possible via iframe, only when embedding using scripts).

  • by beardyw on 1/7/2024, 3:20:56 PM

    Will it be cross origin? If so I think there are other issues.