swagger VS realworld

Yeah the API is very similar but they serve different purposes as you mention here. It looks like there's been some discussion about aligning them since other people have had a similar observation.

1. openapi is not defined. https://github.com/nestjs/swagger/issues/1450

The repository for every optional NestJS package that has decorators seems to consistently put them in /lib/decorators. For example, here are the NestJS Swagger decorators.

NestJS provides a dedicated module which allows generating OpenAPI (Swagger) - Github - nestjs/swagger

Thanks to the system of extensions, Ditsmod applications are more expressive and with less code. For example, if you compare OpenAPI modules written in Ditsmod and NestJS, the Ditsmod module is 3.5 times smaller in the number of lines of code or the number of files.

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!