nestjs-realworld-example-app VS realworld

This might be a bit controversial but mostly authentication is framework agnostic. Usually the part you care about is access rights which is usually handled by your routing library. But I get what you're referring to. Hacker news and medium are weirdly the alternatives you might be looking for. You can checkout realworld and hnpwa to see examples for those in different frameworks.

Once in a while I create a realworld app (demo) to learn a new framework or explore certain different ways of application architecture.

I've always thought this was a pretty good place to see how frameworks look in a 'real-world' way. https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld Since each repo is a clone of Medium.com you can see how expressjs compares to NestJS, or Laravel or Spring, etc.

In light of all this, it became exceedingly clear that someone else needed to step in and help. Why not me? Well, it can be me. And, after 3 months of development, I am happy to announce (again) dwayne/elm-conduit (demo), an open-source Elm SPA for RealWorld's Medium.com clone.

https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

It's just for web app (a Todo app). Your GIS AND CLI ideas are interesting, I haven't seen anything similar to realworld for those.

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So what would be a better benchmark? Perhaps a "standard" "real world" app, like https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

Or something simpler?

RealWorld example app is a full-stack application called "Conduit" that consists of a backend that serves JSON API and a frontend UI. There are numerous implementations for different languages and frameworks, but in this tutorial you will be using the Spring backend and the React frontend.

Github has millions of projects, some large fraction with more than 100 stars, so it doesn't seem like you are searching very hard. But more importantly, why "100 stars"? Stars are meaningless and arbitrary. Many developers use stars like bookmarks. I just did a quick search and noticed a project like realworld (just a demo for learning, 65 contributors) has have more stars than Bitcoin (900+ developers, perhaps you have heard of it?)

I feel you, context API sometimes overcomplicates everything. Let me introduce to you RealWorld. It is a great project that uses composition to make its structure scalable. It is actually a codebase that implements various fragments of a larger scale project such as Medium or Twitter. Check it out here: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld. I hope this helps!