Blazor client for Lemmy? (lemmyonline.com)

submitted 2 years ago by xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com to c/csharp@programming.dev

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Just a random idea- but,

Would anyone be interested in having a .net based blazor front end for lemmy?

Sadly, there isn't yet a c# nuget package, but, that wouldn't be hard to fix.

https://join-lemmy.org/api/

The API itself, is pretty well documented.

And, building custom front-ends is encouraged as well.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/04-api.html#creating-a-custom-frontend

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[-] cyn@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Figuring out how to actually put a package on nuget, but I have fully implemented the API

https://github.com/SlyCedix/dotNETLemmy/tree/main
https://slycedix.github.io/dotNETLemmy/

I intend to write a mobile app using Avalonia UI using it

Do note, it's mostly untested so there's a good chance a handful of the datatypes won't serialize or deserialize correctly, but that's an easy fix once found

edit: Uploaded to nuget, currently being validated

https://www.nuget.org/packages/dotNETLemmy.API/0.0.1

[-] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 3 points 2 years ago

Just, gonna add-

If I end up building the front-end for this, is gonna end up looking like a bootstrap example website!!!

[-] canpolat@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

That's a good idea. I would like to experiment with some ideas where one could have an RSS reader together with a lemmy client. But the ideas are too raw and I'm not yet sure if it's feasible.

Maybe I misunderstood, but it sounds like you are looking for "team mates" to develop a lemmy client. Or was it just a suggestion to others?

[-] nibblebit@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I think that would be great! I started working on a Azure Functions bot and started a DI dotnet client that I put on nuget https://github.com/ydinkov/Lemmy.Net

It's super wip right now, but Ill be adding more models, tests and error handling.

[-] crystelium@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Just out of interest, why not use refit for something like this? You could get a basic client going much faster - unless there's some specific behaviour you want for the client (which would require painful customisation with refit).

I've come to be quite a fan of refit recently purely for how quick you can get a basic, working client

[-] nibblebit@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

I like refit too! It's super nice, but very quickly i realised the API does some weird undocumented stuff and isn't very consistently implemented. I feel more comfortable doing the boilerplate my myself (chatgpt helps) while i figure out the funk.

[-] crystelium@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Ah, that's fair - haven't encountered anything weird with it yet. I can imagine with chatgpt it's become much easier though - I need to start giving AI tools a try. Do you have a particular set up for using chatgpt with rider or anything?

[-] nibblebit@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

No setup at all, just strip-mine the sourcecode for the existing TS client, have it generate curl requests. Run the curls, ask it to create POCOs for the results, and adjust.

@pwshguy@programming.dev wrote a pwsh module for lemmy and can attest to the troubles =D