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what tools do you want as a nostr developer???
3573 sats \ 20 comments \ @sepehr 3 May 2023 nostr
if you are developing stuff on #nostr, let's discuss around existing / wanted tools. I personally as a developer gather a bunch of functionalities that a client may need together, and provide them as a simple yet intelligent and performant library called Nostr-Hooks. https://github.com/sepehr-safari/nostr-hooks
what else do you want as a nostr developer? what features/tools would satisfy your development experience?
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938 sats \ 2 replies \ @joelklabo 3 May 2023
Something like postman for nostr events. With a a UI to fill in the fields.
As well as subscribe to things and see what the responses look like.
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535 sats \ 0 replies \ @sepehr OP 3 May 2023
I liked it. going to plan it after my current projects.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @3087614073 4 May freebie
I'm voting for this one, too. This week I believe I'm going to whip up a public Postman collection of as many Nostr NIP types as I can manage.
454 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 3 May 2023
It seems like the biggest problem web clients have is performance. Most of them that aren't running in conjunction with some kind of trusted relay aren't very fast.
I'd figure out why and create something that addresses the problem.
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162 sats \ 5 replies \ @sepehr OP 3 May 2023
the main problem is that everything has to be fetched on the client side and there is no server cache or SSR stuff. this is the most important yet worst feature of nostr at the same time. but we can handle a part of it with client side caching and so.
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54 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 3 May 2023
This is true of native clients too, but those are relatively fast. Why are they?
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @sepehr OP 3 May 2023
what do you mean of "native clients"?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 3 May 2023
Mobile and desktop apps ie not in a browser
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284 sats \ 1 reply \ @sepehr OP 3 May 2023
I think, it's not something related to platforms. there are some fast web clients already. primal.net is super fast but it uses some sort of caching on servers. nostribe.com is fast too but it's still under development.
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64 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 3 May 2023
Yes those platforms are an example of what I meant by trusted relays - they use nostr but are kind of a perversion of nostr because they have high trust with a server (which could censor).
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63 sats \ 1 reply \ @franzap 3 May 2023
Also interested. Are you asking in general or specifically for React?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sepehr OP 3 May 2023
mostly for all sort of clients
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110 sats \ 7 replies \ @ursuscamp 3 May 2023
Something like Postman for Nostr. Maybe both a client AND a relay with a GUI, not a CLI, not meant for production use, but for testing during application development. It could have rush support for new NIPs and protocols and be highly configurable via GUI (turn NIPs on/off, etc.)
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200 sats \ 4 replies \ @fiatjaf 3 May 2023
If you want a GUI you're not a developer.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @ursuscamp 4 May 2023
Oh yeah? And what would you know? /s
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @sepehr OP 4 May 2023
he's the creator of nostr! haha.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ursuscamp 4 May 2023
Hence the "/s" ;-)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sepehr OP 3 May 2023
haha, true! but I love to bring some better development experience to folks ^_^
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sepehr OP 3 May 2023
nice! the details are interesting...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @3087614073 4 May freebie
Yeah definitely interested in this one! Holochain has a playground, it would be sick to see a Nostr playground come to the forefront.