I’d like to help, do any fediverse apps use node on their backend?
I’d like to help, do any fediverse apps use node on their backend?
I’m learning web development. I’m on databases at the moment, postgresql in particular. I thought it might be fun to try to help with a fediverse project or two, but I’m only knowledgeable about node.js, and npm, do any fediverse projects use that? I also may be diving too deep too early with this. Appreciate any feedback you guys have!
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I was looking for a NodeJS Activity Pub library, and the only promising one I found looks to be only partially complete. That said, I think most Fediverse platforms use implementations in other languages: Rust (Lemmy) , PHP (Kbin), Ruby (Mastadon), etc).
Several frontends use NodeJS, though. Perhaps you can contribute there or even contribute to Actvitypub-Express to bring that to feature completion?
This is awesome info. Thanks! I’ll have to look into it. Would be an interesting side project to work on as i learn.
Pixelfed also uses PHP/Laravel in the backend
activitypub isn't something you can abstract into a library in a clean way in my experience. the best attempt here seems to be go-fed. most projects i know of implement it in their own way, specialized to the kind of platform they're planning to build.