A real example?

[frederikhors]

I am very happy to have just discovered this ambitious project.

Is there any real application example (maybe GraphQL) made with hof?

[verdverm]

@frederikhors I am currently working on such an example. It will be Golang & REST, though GraphQL would not be difficult to add on.

• REST based on https://echo.labstack.com/
• Possible GraphQL inspiration https://github.com/manakuro/golang-with-echo-gorm-graphql-example

Would you be interested in helping out with that? I'd be happy to sync up / video call to kick off the work

I do have a much more advanced JS / Apollo / React / Node / GraphQL example, but it is based on the old style code gen and currently closed source. We could pull the templates out... 🤔

[verdverm]

It will be this repository: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hofmod-server

I have some code locally I'm looking to polish up and push in the next week or so.

[verdverm]

@frederikhors the https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hofmod-server has come quite a ways

How does it look as an example now?

[bbkane]

Not the issue opener, but there seems to be a lot going on in that example. Could you make an even simpler (absolutely trivial) example? Maybe something like the classic TODO list app. Just generate the HTTP client and server. Leave it unauthenticated, just use a []string in memory to hold TODOs instead of a db and write a blog post about how you built this app starting from scratch? Then folks like me could more easily follow it and refer back to hofmod-server once we're comfortable with the basics and need more advanced examples. See https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc (Getting Started section) for what I mean by trivial examples.

[verdverm]

You can turn off some of the options (in theory, not sure how much in practice though I could fix that) and then generate the code to see something simpler. Not using a DB would require changing / switching the templates to something trivial which hof aims to avoid in practice. I'd be more than happy to accept that work but I'm unlikely to do it myself.

• https://github.com/hofstadter-io/_saas has usage of the server without all the hofmod stuff around. You'll have to generate it as I haven't added the output to git yet (too many changes still)
• https://cuetorials.com/first-steps/generate-all-the-things/#generating-with-hof shows a minimal generator and usage (not server)

I'm actually working on a post somewhere in the middle of what you want and where hofmod-server is going. Been focussing on Cuelang for a bit and am now taking a pass back over hof & docs for a while.

[bbkane]

cuetutorials looks really nice, I hadn't seen it before! I'll check out your links, thanks!

[verdverm]

@bbkane I've started writing a series of sections based on your input.

The following show you how to both create and use a generator

• first-example shows how to get setup and create a basic API outline
• [adding a datamodel] (wip) will expand to server and add persistent data, probably as a map[string]interface{}
• [multi-lang output] (wip) will add show how to add a client side to it

In a separate area, I plan to outline the advanced features and production ready modules that are directly usable without having to write any generators.

[bbkane]

This is much easier for me to follow. Looking forward to seeing more sections. Thank you!