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"The mother of all demo apps" — Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone powered by React, Angular, Node, Django, and many more

72 mentions on Hacker News by 65 people: 23 stories, 49 comments · first 2017-04-24 · latest 2026-10-14

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  1. …around with evals for a harness I'm working on and so far I have just been doing runs of converting https://github.com/realworld-apps/realworld from one language to another not super pleased with it the unsatisfying answer I think is that…
  2. …our code side-by-side, to translate concepts they know from Rails into our approach in Hanami. [1]: https://github.com/realworld-apps/realworld
    comment by cllns_ruby · 2026-07-01 · in Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom
  3. …'time-to-Realworld' benchmark which has Claude Code drive the harness to build an implementation of https://github.com/realworld-apps/realworld with the win condition that it must pass my rigorous postman collection + playwright test…
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    RealWorld project is stopping maintenance
    story by gdotdesign · 2024-10-25 · 0 comments
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    RealWorld: Demo apps for dozens of front end/back end stack combinations
    story by Arubis · 2024-09-13 · 0 comments
  6. …about opinions and more about giving you metrics that you can weigh in yourself! Here's the repo: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
    comment by KronisLV · 2024-08-12 · in 53% Less JavaScript with jQuery
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    "The mother of all demo apps"
    story by probhavsh · 2024-05-25 · 1 comment
  8. https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld It's just for web app (a Todo app). Your GIS and CLI ideas are interesting, I haven't seen anything similar to realworld for those.
  9. So what would be a better benchmark? Perhaps a "standard" "real world" app, like https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld > The RealWorld Demo is a large community-backed open source project that showcases all web frameworks client or…
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    Realworld: “The mother of all demo apps” – Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone
    story by olalonde · 2023-08-12 · 0 comments
  11. …components where you can pair any frontend with any backend (plus a few fullstack implementations). https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld Not as performance-focused with benchmarks, but a good point of comparison for various languages…
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    RealWorld Example Apps
    story by noworriesnate · 2022-09-16 · 0 comments
  13. YW, sure please check this: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld It's a collection of 100 implementation of the same project but in different languages. This might help you to choose your preferred stack and see a real world example on…
    comment by js4ever · 2022-07-16 · in Can I build my SaaS in no-code tools
  14. This is the approach I've settled on too. I'm almost finished my first backend implementation of https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld and now that I've implemented it once I'm very familiar with it and could very quickly implement it…
  15. …Real World is a more complex real world app, a blog style social media site. https://todomvc.com/ https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
    comment by cercatrova · 2022-01-01 · in Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
  16. …but nothing really has changed, you want to be able to program from this spec https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
  17. Another would be the "Real World" example apps: https://codebase.show/projects/realworld https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
  18. You might find this useful - https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld Different framework implementations of a CRUD website with authentication. A lot of popular web frameworks have basic authentication out of the box & easily allow you to…
  19. Do we have a repo like https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld but for HN clients?
  20. …frameworks (though not necessarily the most bleeding edge versions), feel free to have a look here: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld The last time someone did a writeup on the results was in the March of 2020, but even then Angular…
    comment by KronisLV · 2020-11-12 · in Angular 11
  21. Will it be possible for you folks to add a Realworld example for Micro? https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld it will help someone like me, sitting on the fence about this whole idea, a better starting point for using Mirco for my use…
    comment by rishav_sharan · 2020-11-12 · in Netlify for the frontend, Micro for the backend
  22. You might be looking for something like this? https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
    comment by bussierem · 2020-11-01 · in 7GUIs
  23. https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
  24. …the "RealWorld" example SPA showcase (it's like a TodoMVC for SPAs), which has 43k stars on GitHub: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld And go ahead and click on the demo site: https://demo.realworld.io/ In virtually every…
  25. …) - HNPWA ( https://hnpwa.com/ ), that compares PWAs for accessing the HN api - RealWorld ( https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld ) that does the same but for both frontend and backend. The API between both is standardized, so you must…
    comment by rakoo · 2020-06-23 · in Go vs. Crystal Performance
  26. …have everything except the list of tools necessary to actually run and develop the app. [1]: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
    comment by Kinrany · 2020-05-30 · in The Hard Part of Learning a Language
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    Real world app examples, 10s of back ends and front ends :)
    story by brainless · 2020-04-30 · 0 comments
  28. …to put together something in a variety of different languages and styles, is better for this. [0] https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
  29. …using VueJS with Django integrated as closely as in the article. Something along the lines of: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld which covers front-end and back-end separately
    comment by sireat · 2020-04-14 · in Using VueJS Alongside Django
  30. would be neat to see an implementation of the realworld app with Mint. https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
  31. …to a product than you think. ;) For technology showcases the RealWorld example is pretty popular: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld . Showcasing your tech prowess is quite a bit different, I get that. Kudos for readable hook-based…
  32. You could always use the real world example demo as an example: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld/blob/master/README....
    comment by johnsonjo · 2019-12-10 · in Ask HN: Example of good Node.js project?
  33. …the frameworks rather than the programming languages, but it is still interesting nonetheless. [0] https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
    comment by Schoolmeister · 2019-11-30 · in Mal – Make a Lisp, implemented in 79 languages
  34. https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld has a full spec you can clone and then compare to somebody else's implementation
  35. Only if you include stuff like auth and migrations. https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld It's pretty easy to tell which frameworks are mature and which are not simply by looking at how many wheels that need to be reinvented.
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    Liaison: A love story between the front end and the back end
    story by mvila · 2019-11-07 · 0 comments
  37. …--- Final note: I'd like to see TechEmpower's benchmarks based off of a more real-world app like https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld as well though.
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    Medium clones fullstack: The mother of all demo apps“
    story by based2 · 2019-10-06 · 0 comments
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    Forget Hello World Apps, Create Real World Apps
    story by paulygarcia · 2019-09-03 · 0 comments
  40. …the ClojureScript re-frame implementation of the real world app to be the cleanest of the bunch: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld/blob/master/README....
  41. …the sun for JS, I wonder if that would be interesting. Edit: Found it, it's called RealWorld ( https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld )
  42. …Here is the main repo for the RealWorld project for front and backend: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
    comment by pier25 · 2019-05-19 · in Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
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    Gothinkster/realworld: “The mother of all demo apps”
    story by wheresvic1 · 2019-05-16 · 0 comments
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    Ask HN: What are your most recommended GitHub repos to learn from?
    story by casem921 · 2019-04-13 · 1 comment
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    Ask HN: What are your most recommended GitHub repos to learn from?
    story by casem921 · 2019-04-07 · 0 comments
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    Ask HN: Most useful GitHub repos to learn from or to use as reference?
    story by fandawg195 · 2019-03-11 · 0 comments
  47. …build artifacts. Compare the bundle sizes of Elm with the other competing frameworks here[0]. [0] https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
    comment by christophilus · 2019-03-04 · in Ask HN: Anyone Using Elm in Production?
  48. Make a RealWorld.io implementation or it doesn't exist! https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
  49. …find dozens of alternative solutions, often by people who've obviously used none of them. [1]: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
    comment by thegeomaster · 2019-02-01 · in Show HN: Learn React fundamentals
  50. re-frame is beautiful. the real world implementation in re-frame up on https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld has excellent comments and is a great way to learn it after the docs
    comment by vga805 · 2019-01-10 · in IBM releases Elm-powered app