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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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…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…
comment by pjm331 · 2026-10-14 · in Show HN: Graphicle, a Rust port of Graphify with memory for coding agents -
…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 -
…'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…
comment by latentsea · 2026-03-28 · in HyperAgents: Self-referential self-improving agents -
…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 -
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.
comment by ttymck · 2024-03-21 · in Ask HN: Reference applications to idiomatically learn languages/frameworks? -
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…
comment by andai · 2023-12-05 · in Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails -
…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…
comment by jamie_ca · 2022-10-23 · in Programming language comparison by reimplementing the same transit data app -
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 -
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…
comment by barking_biscuit · 2022-07-15 · in Ask HN: What do you code when learning a new language/framework? -
…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? -
…but nothing really has changed, you want to be able to program from this spec https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
comment by Evgenii1 · 2021-10-30 · in How can an English teacher transition into web-development? -
Another would be the "Real World" example apps: https://codebase.show/projects/realworld https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
comment by scns · 2021-08-17 · in Show HN: LemonadeJS – A micro JavaScript library for building web interfaces -
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…
comment by mattferderer · 2021-04-08 · in The architecture behind a one-person tech startup -
Do we have a repo like https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld but for HN clients?
comment by aabbcc1241 · 2021-03-14 · in Show HN: I developed a native Cocoa Hacker News client -
…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 -
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 -
https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
comment by ronanyeah · 2020-08-26 · in YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used -
…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…
comment by charukiewicz · 2020-06-25 · in DHH: The HEY stack Vanilla Ruby on Rails, MySQL, redis, stimulus, elastic search -
…) - 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 -
…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 -
…to put together something in a variety of different languages and styles, is better for this. [0] https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
comment by phased20 · 2020-04-19 · in Learn to code by creating working applications -
…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 -
would be neat to see an implementation of the realworld app with Mint. https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
comment by holtalanm · 2020-02-05 · in Mint: A programming language for writing single page applications -
…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…
comment by nohuhu · 2020-01-27 · in A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript -
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? -
…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 -
https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld has a full spec you can clone and then compare to somebody else's implementation
comment by hackermailman · 2019-11-22 · in Ask HN: What are some projects I can build to better learn software engineering? -
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.
comment by sansnomme · 2019-11-22 · in Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file -
…--- 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.
comment by pdimitar · 2019-10-17 · in An Interview with Jose Valim, Creator of Elixir -
…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....
comment by christophilus · 2019-07-30 · in Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered? -
…the sun for JS, I wonder if that would be interesting. Edit: Found it, it's called RealWorld ( https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld )
comment by WrtCdEvrydy · 2019-06-29 · in I’ve spent five years writing a JavaScript framework -
…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) -
…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? -
Make a RealWorld.io implementation or it doesn't exist! https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
comment by electrotype · 2019-02-26 · in Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, Markdown -
…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 -
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 -
would be nice to see a realworld ( https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld ) using this.
comment by keithnz · 2018-10-31 · in Show HN: Giraffe – Functional ASP.NET Core web framework for F# -
…should contribute a Mithril one so that comparison would be possible next time! Here's the link: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld/blob/master/README.... Have fun!
comment by rtfeldman · 2018-08-21 · in Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19 -
I posted this below, but I'll repost it here for better visibility. https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld This is a medium clone built in various frontend and backend technologies.
comment by mrunkel · 2018-07-29 · in I created the exact same app in React and Vue -
Somebody else agrees with you.. https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
comment by mrunkel · 2018-07-29 · in I created the exact same app in React and Vue -
https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld/blob/master/README.... That is what you want, maybe. Lots of different frameworks, building the same working application.
comment by christophilus · 2018-07-29 · in I created the exact same app in React and Vue -
…that's trying to build full stack example apps (a medium clone) in all the various frameworks: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
comment by faizshah · 2018-07-29 · in I created the exact same app in React and Vue -
…given this baseline number. Double isn't soo bad, but it would be nice to get this number down. [0] https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
comment by christophilus · 2018-07-20 · in Go 1.11 Beta 2 is Released -
…any things you think we should read, would love to see it. Internally, we build a Real World app ( https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld ) and some other stuff. It taught us a lot but not nearly as much as a real developer will :)
comment by pbiggar · 2018-04-10 · in We'll pay you $3000/mo to build your startup on Dark -
…should have read more of the article, since this is sort of what they are doing already... 1: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld 2: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
comment by kbenson · 2018-02-14 · in Performance Benchmark 2018 – MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OrientDB, Neo4j and ArangoDB -
…at the very least novel. Kudos for that. Can you walk an extra mile and implement your version for https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld & https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas . This helps to benchmark how intuitive is the…
comment by qikquestion · 2017-06-17 · in Cell – A self-driving web app framework -
…a hardened API. Nice work! Look at upcoming implementations or request your favorite stack here: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld/issues
comment by anishkny · 2017-04-25 · in Show HN: RealWorld – A Collection of Exemplary Front End and Back End Codebases -
…have. Also, be sure to check out (and/or help with!) the upcoming frameworks that we're working on: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld/issues?q=is%3Aopen+...
comment by ericmsimons · 2017-04-25 · in Show HN: RealWorld – A Collection of Exemplary Front End and Back End Codebases