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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Creatortray@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 11 points 11 months ago

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?

[-] Creatortray@lemmy.world 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.

[-] grant@toast.ooo 3 points 11 months ago

Pixelfed also uses PHP/Laravel in the backend

[-] ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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.

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