Work in progress Unison implementation of the RealWorld backend application. This is a REST web application which should eventually adhere to the endpoint specification.

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🚧 🚧 WIP - temporarily on hold due to other commitments 🚧 🚧

Getting started

To ease any confusion upfront: Unison code is content-addressed, which is why the codebase is a database and not human-readable. Types and functions are identified by a hash of their syntax tree. To view this code we must use a tool.

1. Clone this repo

   git clone git@github.com:dantb/unison-realworld-example-app.git
   

2. Install Unison Codebase Manager. Instructions here.
3. Run ucm at the root of this repository. Then within UCM, run trunk.main will start the web application.

NOTE: Soon this application will be on Unison share, so the code will be readable on a public website. You will also be able to pull it locally as a namespace in your own codebase.

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Progress report

Progress is being tracked on this board.

Caveats

Unison is an alpha language, so the library ecosystem is a work in progress. Thus some of the features required by the RealWorld backend have prerequisites which do not yet exist. I plan to implement some of these.

1. Authorization logic currently uses a JWT ability with a dummy handler. Implementing RSA and then JWT on top of it is on the project board.
2. Database interactions are abstracted by the KeyValueStore ability. Currently I'm using an in-memory handler for this. There is a redis library which could be used instead. For now I'm prioritising other features, since that may add some overhead by introducing an external dependency.

Endpoints

Current implemented endpoints:

• User registration POST /users
• User login POST /users/login
• Fetch user GET /user

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