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"The mother of all demo apps" — Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone powered by React, Angular, Node, Django, and many more
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"The mother of all demo apps" — Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone powered by React, Angular, Node, Django, and many more
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 3 | 9 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 19 | 7 | 12 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 1 | 11 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Read the project’s introduction
See how the exact same Medium.com clone is built using different frontends and backends
You can combine any frontend with any backend, because they all adhere to the same API spec
While most "todo" demos provide an excellent cursory glance at a framework's capabilities, they typically don't convey the knowledge required to actually build real applications with it — nor the real-world constraints a minimal demo never has to face.
RealWorld solves this problem by providing the same demo app for each framework, at a sweet spot between simplicity and breadth.
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Implementations
Over 100 implementations have been created using various languages, libraries, and frameworks.
Explore them on CodebaseShow.
Spec-compliant backends
These backends pass the full API spec test suite:
Nitro + Prisma + Zod — TypeScript
Django Ninja — Python
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Documentation introduction
Every tutorial is built against the same API spec to ensure modularity of every frontend & backend
A shared CSS theme is provided to build frontend implementations with identical UI/UX
A shared E2E test suite is available to validate frontend implementations
There is a hosted version of the backend API available for public usage at api.realworld.show, no API keys required — demo accounts are provided, and real accounts can't see each other
There is an angular frontend plugged to this backend available at demo.realworld.show
Interested in creating a new RealWorld stack? View our starter guide & spec
Logo Attribution
See LICENSES_LOGOS.md for framework logo licensing and attribution details.
Active Maintainers
c4ffein - Maintainer - maintains the spec, the test suites and the demo website
Manuel Vila - Maintainer - creator of the Layr framework and the CodebaseShow website
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
12 sourceswould be nice to see a realworld ( https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld ) using this.
In Show HN: Giraffe – Functional ASP.NET Core web framework for F#The comparison was of RealWorld apps - you should contribute a Mithril one so that comparison would be possible next time!
Here's the link:
https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld/blob/master/README....
Have fun!
In Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19Example Medium.com clone with multiple front ends and back ends
3 points · Open discussionI posted this below, but I'll repost it here for better visibility.
https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
This is a medium clone built in various frontend and backend technologies.
In I created the exact same app in React and VueSomebody else agrees with you..
https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
In I created the exact same app in React and Vuehttps://github.com/gothinkster/realworld/blob/master/README....
That is what you want, maybe. Lots of different frameworks, building the same working application.
In I created the exact same app in React and VueThere's a really awesome project called RealWorld that's trying to build full stack example apps (a medium clone) in all the various frameworks: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
In I created the exact same app in React and VueI imagine it would be possible to do some dead code elimination in the future to get the size down. Still, 500KB is roughly the size of a lot of the real world apps[0]. I'd imagine an equivalent app, written in Go would be around double, given this baseline number. Double isn't soo bad, but it would be nice to get this number down.
[0] https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
In Go 1.11 Beta 2 is ReleasedThanks! If you have any things you think we should read, would love to see it.
Internally, we build a Real World app (https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld) and some other stuff. It taught us a lot but not nearly as much as a real developer will :)
In We'll pay you $3000/mo to build your startup on DarkRealworld project built with modern front ends and back ends
1 points · Open discussionThat doesn't sound that hard to start. Something like RealWorld[1] and the Web Framework Benchmarks[2] combined but for DB workloads. Have one dataset that includes data amenable to OLAP and OLTP, but have separate tests each consisting of OLAP queries, OLTP queries, and combined queries. Choose a low-end, mid-range and high-end set of AWS or GCE instances/configs to normalize against. Let people submit pull requests with new technologies or configs.
You'd want to get some funding to run the tests (or maybe solicit Google or Amazon to see if you could get the instance time donated once a month or something.
If you started small, with maybe a portion of these features, and then scaled up over time, you might actually get to the point where you had tests that emulated a power failure, or master/slave and dual master scenarios and how the
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y handle certain common network errors (split-brain). That would be an amazing resource.
Edit: It occurs to me I probably should have read more of the article, since this is sort of what they are doing already...
1: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
2: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/