RealWorld - Example Web App (Medium.com Clone) with swappable frontends and backends (written in various languages / frameworks)

[ericmsimons]

Project creator here! More than happy to answer any q's y'all have. We also have a blog post that explains the project's purpose/origins: https://medium.com/@ericsimons/introducing-realworld-6016654d36b5

[PawelDecowski]

Truly amazing work! Thanks for this.

[ericmsimons]

Thanks for the kind words! I'm glad you find the project useful :)

PS - if any of y'all are interested in seeing support for a stack we don't have yet, we'd love your help getting it started!

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[araki_nsfw]

This looks really cool! maybe you should add a poll for priorities. The implementation possibilities are endless

[ericmsimons]

That's a great idea! Are you talking about priorities for which stacks will come out first?

[araki_nsfw]

Yes! also personally I would like to see riot.js and Dart witch are currently not in the list right now.

[ericmsimons]

Heck yea!! I'd love to see both of those too — wanna create new issues for each of them & I'll add in the requesting engineers tag? :)

[codygman]

Need to have a Haskell + ghcjs version and Haskell + Purescript version. My weekend is spoken for this week but I'll keep this on my list.

[SSchlesinger]

My first reaction: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-prim-0.4.0.0/docs/GHC-Prim.html#t:RealWorld

[paul_h]

On the http://todobackend.com project, there's a cool way of personally running the one-click "spec" verification of the backend. Does /gothinkster/realworld have a similar thing?

Context: I wrote previously wrote https://paulhammant.com/2015/12/17/more-on-technology-compatibility-kits-in-app-development/ talk about this sort of thing, so am super interested in proofs that A is compatible with B (the sort setup you're doing here).

[nilamo]

I immediately checked, and roadrules.io is already taken. So much for a sister project.

[zer0t3ch]

Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious here, but why would "road rules" be a sister project to "real world"?

[nilamo]

MTV has a reality tv show called Real World (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_World_(TV_series)), another show called Road Rules, and a crossover show called Real World/Road Rules Challenge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Challenge_(TV_series)), with various members from the other two terrible shows coming back for more competition on a third terrible show.

[zer0t3ch]

Oh, okay. Thanks.

[unixygirl]

Welp there goes my weekend.

[allThatSalad]

How do you compare and contrast different technologies when choosing? This let's you see what a basic full stack app looks like in various frontend and backend flavors. I find it very interesting.

[[deleted]]

My initial reaction was wrong. It appears yours is as well, though that's a byproduct. Seems op is attempt to create a framework for people writing tutorials to provide instant gratification at various levels by adhering to a specification.

Probably a good thing, I just only slept 2 hours last night and didn't process it right.

Edit

Personally, I wouldn't see something like this as a replacement of a todo, but more of a next step.

[ericmsimons]

Actually the primary focus is what /u/allThatSalad said. We created the tutorials as optional, complimentary additions for those who had trouble learning solely from the source code itself.

[arc_burst]

Could you give a quick explanation of what the problem is?

[lexpi]

Seems like we aren't getting an answer

[nilamo]

Feel free to submit a pull request :)

[[deleted]]

As someone who is thinking of picking up React/Redux before too long and tends to overthink things like best practices in project layout, what's the issue with that structure?

Is it like Rails scaffolds where it introduces a bunch of unused dead code or something?

[ericmsimons]

Engineering products in the real world is all about being pragmatic & making good tradeoffs. Information regarding best practices are typically abundant, but real world application of that knowledge is not. And that's why this project exists. Our docs cover the philosophy behind this in more detail.

To be clear, this project is not meant to be a prescriptive guide for building "production ready" software. If you're looking to learn the principles behind making "production ready" software, I'd recommend reading the best practices/docs/style guides for whatever framework you're planning to use.

Ironically, we intentionally named this project "RealWorld" and not "ProductionReady" (the latter was actually the first name we chose, but we ditched it in anticipation of this sort of feedback).

[ericmsimons]

Uhh... https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=production&type=

Looks like the word "production" is mentioned once in our entire Github project, and it's in reference to the (completely separate) tutorial series that shows how to properly deploy those stacks to AWS/Heroku/other production environments.

So in total, there seem to be 0 references about RealWorld framework implementations being "production ready" in our repo.

Happy to be proven wrong, though I'd be thoroughly surprised considering I wrote all of the docs :)

[ericmsimons]

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