wasp/examples/realworld/README.md

Realworld app

Realworld app is a benchmark for implementing a relatively complex app in a specific web dev solution.

Here, we implement it in Wasp, by following their specification.

Todo:

• User + auth (JWT).
• Login and signup pages.
• Settings page with logout button (no user deletion needed).
• Profile page that shows basic user info.
• Home page with navbar.
• CRUD Articles (created from Markdown).
• On /article page, show author username and date of creation (of article).
• Render article content as markdown.
• For Article, use special id which contains title in the name, and display it in url?
• CR*D Comments on articles.
• Add tags to articles.
• Show Popular Tags on home page.
• Favorite articles.
• Following other users.
• Paginated lists of articles (on profile page, on home page).
• Use Bootstrap 4 styling.
• Use proposed url routes.

What I wish I could do (& other notes):

• Write less boilerplate -> declaration in Wasp, implementation in JS, it is boilerplaitish, easy to forget smth.
• Write forms faster. I need to know too much about how to write forms in React, I don't like that, all the details, thinking about e.target value and what not. Might be cool if Wasp had sub-DSL for forms -> it could generate HTML that is semantically correct, and then they can apply any CSS they want.
• Didn't have to write signup and login forms.
• I wish it was typed.
• auth should complain if entity does not have email and password fields.
• It is tricky to remember to run wasp db migrate-save/up.
• I wish common Prisma errors were automatically converted into corresponding HttpErrors (although, is this security problem?).

Can't implement for now due to lacking support in Wasp:

• Unit tests