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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…
  4. …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
  5. 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.
  6. 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…
  7. …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…
  8. 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
  9. 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…
  10. …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?
  11. …but nothing really has changed, you want to be able to program from this spec https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
  12. Another would be the "Real World" example apps: https://codebase.show/projects/realworld https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
  13. 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…
  14. Do we have a repo like https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld but for HN clients?
  15. …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
  16. 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
  17. You might be looking for something like this? https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
    comment by bussierem · 2020-11-01 · in 7GUIs
  18. https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
  19. …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…
  20. …) - 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
  21. …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
  22. …to put together something in a variety of different languages and styles, is better for this. [0] https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
  23. …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
  24. would be neat to see an implementation of the realworld app with Mint. https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
  25. …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…
  26. 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?
  27. …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
  28. https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld has a full spec you can clone and then compare to somebody else's implementation
  29. 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.
  30. …--- 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.
  31. …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....
  32. …the sun for JS, I wonder if that would be interesting. Edit: Found it, it's called RealWorld ( https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld )
  33. …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)
  34. …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?
  35. Make a RealWorld.io implementation or it doesn't exist! https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
  36. …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
  37. 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
  38. would be nice to see a realworld ( https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld ) using this.
  39. …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!
  40. 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.
  41. Somebody else agrees with you.. https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
  42. 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
  43. …that's trying to build full stack example apps (a medium clone) in all the various frameworks: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
  44. …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
  45. …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 :)
  46. …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/
  47. …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
  48. …a hardened API. Nice work! Look at upcoming implementations or request your favorite stack here: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld/issues
  49. …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+...