nimforum

Open source Vanilla seems to not be doing well: https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/39204/where-do-we-.... It's a shame. I thought it had a nice UI: mobile-friendly, not very flashy, around 300K per page (less if assets are cached), rendered on the server. I wanted to migrate my FluxBB forum to Vanilla, since FluxBB is effectively discontinued in favor of Flarum. If I migrate my forum now, it will probably be to Flarum. https://www.unitedbsd.com/ runs it, and I seem to like the experience of browsing it more than Discourse forums (edit: but I still prefer paginated forums without infinite scrolling). It also helps that Flarum has lower system requirements than Discourse. The forum migration tool https://github.com/linc/nitro-porter targets both Vanilla and Flarum, though I haven't actually attempted a migration with it, so I don't k

"embedded" can mean a few different things so that's a bit confusing for me, but if the intent was "show me places sqlite is used as a database backend for user-facing web software", the Nim forum (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum) uses sqlite as its database backend.

https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum https://forum.nim-lang.org uses sqlite, is actively improved, they claim the nim language makes small cross-platform binaries but none for this release it seems.

I don’t know about other web-guides. Nim’s official website is made with Nim and available at Github[0], but it has become at bit more complicated after they switched to Karax[1]. Jester’s tests gives a good view on the routing procedures[2]. The official tutorials[3] are pretty good, when you get the grab on how to ”decode” them. For web development with websockets and microservices I would suggest you to have a look at the Redis package[4], and @treeform’s Websocket[5] and JsonParsing-packet[6]. [0] https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum/ [1] https://github.com/karaxnim/karax [2] https://github.com/dom96/jester/blob/master/tests/alltest.ni... [3] https://nim-lang.org/docs/tut1.html [4] https://github.com/nim-lang/redis [5] https://github.com/treeform/ws [6] https://github.com/treeform/jsony

nimforum*, which powers the official Nim forums, doesn't scale for shit, yet totally works for the scale of that community. not everything needs to massively scale, and, in fact, I think the mistaken belief that everything has to scale has led to many people being dissuaded from building smaller communities like back in The Old Days. * https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum

Nim forum uses SQLite as its db since 2012 and it fits perfectly the article’s use case. Code is available and it can be used to run a discourse inspired forum (although much less featured). https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum

I’ve built a lightweight Discourse clone that you may be interested in checking out. We use it for the Nim programming language forum. https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum

If you like Discourse but want something a bit lighter, check out: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum

As far as I can see you already have a minification task [1] in your nimble file. May I ask you why you are not using it to save bandwidth both for your sever and your visitors? [1] https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum/blob/master/nimforum.ni...

You can certainly get stateful components with Karax. Perhaps I am missing something but Karax itself doesn't need any special support for them. In the code for NimForum I've laid out each component as a stateful component, one example is the `threadlist` module: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum/blob/master/src/fronten.... You can see the `State` type defined there and all components follow this convention.

Oh, thought you were same poster. Well, that other person mentioned it in a context which doesn't appear to be related to systems programming. Just checked Github for some of the top Nim projects. Forum software: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum/search?q=nil&unscoped_q... Web framework: https://github.com/planety/prologue/search?q=nil&unscoped_q=... Twitter front-end: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/search?q=nil&type=Code These uses of "nil" don't appear to have anything to do with systems programming.

yeah, sorry. On our todo: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum/issues/141

Fun off-topic fact: the Nim forum that this announcement is hosted on is written in Nim and completely open source, give it a go: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum

I have used Nim extensively and done a lot of metaprogramming in it. The biggest risk to metaprogramming is that it allows crazy syntax that you have to learn separately. Nim does very well here to enforce limitations which work well in reducing this risk. Comparing Nim's metaprogramming to Rust's shows what I mean. In Rust you can write macros that act on token streams, so as long as the token stream is valid it can be used. This allows libraries like the typed-html package[1]. In Nim you cannot do this unless you put the HTML in a string literal. This limitation created a syntax that is far more idiomatic, admittedly at the expense of familiarity for users of HTML: buildHTML(): html(): head(): title: text "My webpage" body: p(class="red"): text "Hello World" In my experience this works quite we