Meta: Lessons learned

[rubensworks]

In this issue, we can collect all of our lessons learned during Solid app development.

These are things that are not straightforward when considering knowledge about regular (non-Solid) app development.

@surilindur @j-steinbach @VidyashreeTarikereUgent Feel free to comment to this issue with your lessons learned at any time! (Especially if these are just simple things!)

[rubensworks]

Any lessons learned in the meantime @surilindur @j-steinbach @VidyashreeTarikereUgent?

[j-steinbach]

Lots of them, haha. From the top of my head:

• Start coding early, always integrate code with semantics/RDF
• Solid needs better docs
• Ontology-development should not be separated from the app development-cycle
• A Solid-app mixes frontend and backend. We must strive to separate these. It is important to expose only the relevant properties and hooks so the frontend-side doesn't get 'polluted'
• The Solid-login is still not solved and seems like a big mess.
• Someone should take a closer look at all the Async queries and Promises. I assume there are some best practices and common patterns here.
• How to display Triples/Quads in the app? How to map them to 'frontend components'?
• Overall it is not often not clear how specific components and 'things' a frontend-dev wants to do map to Solid/RDF. Ie. I just want to get and display data. But it is not always clear what data I receive and how?