I have trouble about finding tutorials for Drogon Framework

[Necoo33]

Hello Everyone, i'm a full-stack developer which built websites with node.js and php before. I have a liblary in node.js which is "necdetiye-crypto". I'm currently learning c++ and want to be able to make full-stack development with Drogon Framework for high-performance necessary applications on web but i couldn't find any tutorial about that framework. Will you consider to publish any video tutorial for that framework or if it's even exist, can you send the link of that tutorial.

[an-tao]

@Necoo33 You could find some basic tutorials on the wiki page. Thank you for your feedback.

[rickiewars]

I'm also quite new in learning how the Drogon framework works. I agree, in some topics there's still lacking some information, esspecially if you're also new in HTTP-frameworks in general.

@Necoo33 I recently contributed a new wiki renderer to the DrogonFramework team, which you can visit here I find it a bit easier to navigate and search in for specific things.

As of other tips,

• take a look at the examples here for some specific usecases
• If you want to use ORM for database I/O, take a look at the tests
  • The models of Drogon work in a similair way as those in Laravel (in my opinion).
  • Drogon does not implement any migration techniques. The dg_ctl executable expects that you've made that already. Here is a standalone tool called dbmate which could do these migrations for you.
  • The tables which you want dg_ctl to create models for, along with the relationships you want it to implement into the models, you can specify in a model.json file which configurations can be found in the wiki
• Optionally, you could look at the various unit tests of the remaining functionalities but I've not yet done that so can't tell you weather or not those would be very useful or not.
• Search through open and closed issues for some code snippets.
• Ask ChatGPT for some examples but make sure to give it enough context before asking questions. Not everything it gives back is working code but it should give you a rough idea and some insights on what to search for. That's what I've been doing for the last 2 weeks :)

I hope you have something about these tips. Once I've been able to create a small application with Drogon and am more familiair with the framework, I'm considering to create some tutorials for Drogon Framework, at least in the form of something like a blog. This is not a promise though and I don't know if i will find the time to do it so don't keep waiting for it!

@an-tao what I am missing in your comunity is an environment like Discord to discuss things around Drogon and ask questions. It is possible inside the issues but it would be nice to seperate specific question categories in various topics/rooms. Such rooms also invite other comunity members to respond on these questions. Would'nt it be a good idea to start for example a Discord server for the DrogonFramework comunity?

[Necoo33]

@rickiewars thank you for your answer. Your website looks a little nicer than official wiki. I'm currently using express.js on my freelance projects and i think i'm understand enough how http frameworks work. I just don't want to struggle even figuring about most basic things like installing a blank project, defining routes, adding middlewares, rendering html pages, serving .js and .css, or other files, templating datas, reaching and adding cookies etc. Even 2-3 hours of video tutorials about fundamentals will be great for me, make me faster and grateful to you. Community definitely should consider shoot a video tutorial of fundamentals for my kinda developers even if it's only 1-2 hours long.

[rickiewars]

Your website looks a little nicer than official wiki.

Just to be clear, the site is now officially hosted by the Drogon framework team so technically it's not my website, it was only my contribution ;-)

Glad to help 👍