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I’d like to help, do any fediverse apps use node on their backend? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

This is awesome info. Thanks! I’ll have to look into it. Would be an interesting side project to work on as i learn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Pixelfed also uses PHP/Laravel in the backend

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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.