How is the best way to get started building apps in the fediverse?
Read the ActivityPub protocol and a book on webdevelopment...
Are there any guides, tutorials, or documentation for how to start building fediverse apps?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works to fediverse@lemmy.world
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hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 weeks ago
shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 3 weeks ago
lol yeah, that’ll do it.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Depends, there is some flask based lemmy server that was pretry easy to read. And u always have the activpub docs but nobody follows them to the t so making everything interoperate is going to be a mindfuck.
ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
not much beyond “look at what other apps you’re trying to interoperate with output and try to reverse engineer your way through”. reading through the sources of other apps may be a good idea.
some links that may get you started:
and depending on which ecosystem you’re targeting:
counter intuitively, avoid reading the specs if you’re looking to federate with existing software. the official specs are… extremely lacking beyond giving you the bullets to shoot yourself in the foot with (half of it goes unused in the real world, things like “how do i know this activity is sent by the person it claims to be” is completely undefined (hint: everyone has more or less settled on http signatures). once you get something federating, you can then look in the specs in an attempt to learn the concepts in depth, but writing code following the specs will result in code that simply won’t federate.
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think it may also be worthwhile to toss in Bonfire, if looking for some pieces designed to hack together into a fediverse app. As I was looking up software the other day, I also saw some developing their software with Fedify, so there may be some resources to pull from there.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Very nice, thank you.