The more I work on #ONI, which is basically a web components frontend for an as basic as possible #ActivityPub client to server service, the more I realize I'm just not built for JavaScript programming.
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The more I work on #ONI, which is basically a web components frontend for an as basic as possible #ActivityPub client to server service, the more I realize I'm just not built for JavaScript programming.
Despite having put in the hours every day for a number of months, the whole Promise paradigm just doesn't seem to click for me.
Now I'm struggling to create a throbber component (easy) while fetches happen in the background (easy) and then have it replaced (not easy) by actual content (easy).
😱 Gaaah!!!
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The more I work on #ONI, which is basically a web components frontend for an as basic as possible #ActivityPub client to server service, the more I realize I'm just not built for JavaScript programming.
Despite having put in the hours every day for a number of months, the whole Promise paradigm just doesn't seem to click for me.
Now I'm struggling to create a throbber component (easy) while fetches happen in the background (easy) and then have it replaced (not easy) by actual content (easy).
😱 Gaaah!!!
@mariusor FWIW, I'm working on a similar thing, and I've settled into a pattern like this - the component has a spinner, a viewer, and a no-data message, then have a dataBind() method like:
```
dataBind(data, binder) {
if (data) {
this.#spinner.style.display = 'none';
this.#viewer.style.display = null;
this.#noData.style.display = 'none';
} else {
this.#spinner.style.display = 'none';
this.#viewer.style.display = 'none';
this.#noData.style.display = null;
}
}
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@mariusor FWIW, I'm working on a similar thing, and I've settled into a pattern like this - the component has a spinner, a viewer, and a no-data message, then have a dataBind() method like:
```
dataBind(data, binder) {
if (data) {
this.#spinner.style.display = 'none';
this.#viewer.style.display = null;
this.#noData.style.display = 'none';
} else {
this.#spinner.style.display = 'none';
this.#viewer.style.display = 'none';
this.#noData.style.display = null;
}
}
```@OpinionatedGeek litjs has an idiomatic way of achieving this kind of logic.
It has an `until(promise, fallback)` function which waits for the promise to resolve and display fallback until then.
Even with this simple setup I still get issues. :D
It's definitely a "me" problem. I'm holding it wrong somehow, but I haven't seen any examples in the wild of "holding it right".
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@OpinionatedGeek litjs has an idiomatic way of achieving this kind of logic.
It has an `until(promise, fallback)` function which waits for the promise to resolve and display fallback until then.
Even with this simple setup I still get issues. :D
It's definitely a "me" problem. I'm holding it wrong somehow, but I haven't seen any examples in the wild of "holding it right".
@mariusor That sounds so frustrating! (I feel your pain. I've given up in the past on libraries/add-ons that did complicated jobs but had no docs to tell me how to use them. I love examples!)
I do like the sound of that `until()` approach. I went with an ever-more-complex databinding approach that causes me some problems with large ActivityPub objects...
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@mariusor That sounds so frustrating! (I feel your pain. I've given up in the past on libraries/add-ons that did complicated jobs but had no docs to tell me how to use them. I love examples!)
I do like the sound of that `until()` approach. I went with an ever-more-complex databinding approach that causes me some problems with large ActivityPub objects...
Hey @OpinionatedGeek I see you're working on ActivityPub stuff, is the code public to look at?
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@mariusor That sounds so frustrating! (I feel your pain. I've given up in the past on libraries/add-ons that did complicated jobs but had no docs to tell me how to use them. I love examples!)
I do like the sound of that `until()` approach. I went with an ever-more-complex databinding approach that causes me some problems with large ActivityPub objects...
@OpinionatedGeek I finally got a workable version, though I am not very satisfied with it.
You can see it in action on my metal releases bot/ActivityPub playground: https://releases.bruta.link/outbox
The tab at the top corresponds to the outbox collection of the actor it gets loaded in the background to show an eventual icon/name change.
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@OpinionatedGeek I finally got a workable version, though I am not very satisfied with it.
You can see it in action on my metal releases bot/ActivityPub playground: https://releases.bruta.link/outbox
The tab at the top corresponds to the outbox collection of the actor it gets loaded in the background to show an eventual icon/name change.
@mariusor Nice! I like the way the data flows through the `it` attribute.
FWIW here's how your post looks in my C2S code. Depending on circumstances, each of the main bits (the profile picture, name, each addressee, the replied-to actor, and the content) may be demand-loaded.
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@mariusor Nice! I like the way the data flows through the `it` attribute.
FWIW here's how your post looks in my C2S code. Depending on circumstances, each of the main bits (the profile picture, name, each addressee, the replied-to actor, and the content) may be demand-loaded.
@OpinionatedGeek nice, I like that you display explicitly the recipients.
So far everyone seems to want to paper over that whole mechanism with the "public" "followers" "mentions" model that Mastodon engendered.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@apps@toot.fedilab.app appreciate the open API but of course be wary of abuse. I would not be opposed to registering for an API key when needed 🙂
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@HolosDiscover
Sounds good. A lot text about indexing and how it works.
But no Text about what it does and how to use. What UI, Instances?
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@julian
There's a public API where you can search posts, accounts, hashtags, get trending content, public timelines, and instance stats.
Documentation: https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-Discover/src/branch/main/doc/api.md
Base URL is https://discover.holos.social. Quick example:
https://discover.holos.social/api/search?q=fediverse&type=posts
No authentication for now, but we may introduce API keys in the future.
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@apps@toot.fedilab.app do you have an API we can use? It'd be interesting to hook into your search results for fediverse search.
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#HolosDiscover is back, from a clean slate.
A #Fediverse search engine that uses standard #ActivityPub federation. It follows you like any account, respects indexable flags, #nobot, #noindex, locked accounts. Deletions, edits, blocks are processed instantly through ActivityPub.
You have full control. Block it, mention it with "unfollow", or disable indexing in your settings.
Source code under AGPL-3.0 on #Codeberg.Details: https://discover.holos.social/how-it-works
Account: @HolosDiscover
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Yes, very likely.
When I built the core software for a bank more than a decade ago, I did the same.
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There isn’t anything that says my server should return the latest known state of a post, including my interactions with it.
And sure, I can refetch any activity from the inbox via proxyUrl (except non-public), but nothing guarantees my server will add the current remote state of a post to its internal representation and return this.
So this forces a thick client situation, to have what should be fairly standard User Experience.
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Of course implementations may vary but the spec isn’t clear, so let’s improve this, yeah! https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-api/issues/52
