Building a Social App with Spin

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    • Create API repo for RUST
      • Create template for Rust API
      • Make an app, any app, that works with Rust
        • Follow the quickstart in Rust
        • Follow the RUST tutorial
    • Create SPA repo for Vue
    • Create API repo for GRPC
    • Create API repo for HTML+CSS+JS
    • Make a template out of it
    • Make it an Activity Pub based
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#+date:[2023-11-19 Sun]

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Our primany goal this year is to empower developers to build real-world applications using the open-source Spin and the Fermyon platform projects or with Spin and Fermyon Cloud.

We're missing out on patterns like authentication, authorisation, CRUD micro-services, CICD, etc.

It's a live documentation. We can explore the repo and follow along the commits to see what is being done. Based on the activity in the project roadmap it's mostly all done already.

Essential features:

• POSTing and GETing some JSON
• Creating a user profile
• Authorisation on API endpoint
• Persisting to a DB
• Automating deployment

This article focus is on:

• Setting up a Spin project with

  • a module for the SPA
  • a module to allow us to create a user profile

Commits for the creating of user profile. Technologies used:

MySQL

nah, we want SQLite3³

VueJS

seriously? Either React or the tryptique

REST Endpoint

Why not GRPC⁴?

Nothing is said but

offline first would be so nice⁵

Looks like we're going to need 2 repos on top of this one:

• One for the API
• One for the SPA

I'm going to try and follow along, to make sure I get the technology right but also create another version with the tech I would like to use instead. That is double the work but where would be the fun? The gimmick of the social app is to expand the comit link to the source code directly. It would be interesting to see if we can make it a bit like Observable or org-mode and have the snippet executable.

TODO Issue for reading the article

DONE Create API repo for RUST

https://gittea.dev/HaQadosch/SpinSocial_RUSTAPI

TODO Create template for Rust API

TODO Make an app, any app, that works with Rust

Just to get the feel for it and make sure you have all the libs installed.

TODO Follow the quickstart in Rust

https://developer.fermyon.com/spin/v2/quickstart

TODO Follow the RUST tutorial

https://developer.fermyon.com/spin/v2/rust-components

DONE Create SPA repo for Vue

https://gittea.dev/HaQadosch/SpinSocial_SPAVue

TODO Create API repo for GRPC

TODO Create API repo for HTML+CSS+JS

TODO Make a template out of it

and be able to create an instance of the social app easily

TODO Make it an Activity Pub based

and let multiple instance connect to each other

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They have a wasm version by the way. And they even have a tutorial for that!

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Buf absolutely rocks. And they even have a tutorial for that!

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Automerge maybe ?