An open source app we can all learn from

Bluesky is blowing up, and it's FULLY open source. Like 100%. Everything. Down to the protocol. And there's so much we can learn from it.

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S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

[BenoitStPierre]

You 100% need to make the video about how mobile is fundamentally different than web in aspects such as routing so that I can send that video to people...

[Daygelo]

As a web developer interested in mobile dev, I would definitely watch a video covering the fundamental differences between web and mobile interfaces.

[Autreiyas]

Wow, I’ve been working on a react native app for a few months now. the web version has been difficult. I’m gonna have to look deeper into this project.

[nathanJohn]

AT stands originally for authenticated transfer - cause all the data is signed by the PDS of the owner to assert authenticity.
The atmosphere is a cool branding thing (and the @ symbol as is with it as well)

[grimm_gen]

Bluesky is an Expo React Native success story🔥

[michaelfrieze]

AT Protocol is so cool. I love seeing new innovation like this and can't wait to play around with it. bsky is interesting as well. The custom feed is especially nice to use. I just wish it had a bookmark feature. The pin emoji is good enough for now.

[Stuki]

Very cool dive-in! Honestly was ready to jump off half way through but then you got me to hang a bit more and I DEFINITELY DON'T REGRET IT! RATHER LEARNED SOMETHING AWESOME! Thanks Theo

[hhjfhf]

The real ones know that Bluesky began with Mike Masnick's "Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech" essay. 🤓😎

[bntheyoutube]

Routing architechture and fundamentals for mobile vs web would be great. The overall design for mobile nav would be awesome.

[anshnanda]

The “cache layer” you are describing at 26:42 is not in the app.

That layer is another service that anyone can host, but it’s essentially a cloud service cache called the “App View” (bad name, I know)

[DarenC]

I'm a JavaScript eschewer, but I have to admit this app and Expo look pretty interesting. The AT protocol too feels like something to play with

[autohmae]

My guess is this would have made Aaron Swartz pretty happy. I'm certain it's not perfect, but could be a game changer.

[SreeharshaR-kd]

This was really cool, I love the open source code base explanation

[readywhen]

As a beginner, Expo router was confusing as f*ck so I copied over the entire Bluesky router and most of the app structure. It's taught me a thing or two about react native!

[abuhurairah]

You 100% need to make the video about how mobile is fundamentally different than web in aspects such as routing so that I can send that video to people...

I would request you if you can compare it not only to the web but also to the native mobile technologies.

[garlicnator]

Great video, thank you!
It's interesting to see react dom applications go to react native.

[BryndilleYT]

Really informative and interesting video, thanks a lot for making it.

A note on useQuery wrappers (around 18:00) :
The recommended way is actually to return a queryOptions() return data, containing all the queryKey, queryFn for a useQuery. That way, you can call useQuery, prefectQuery, etc, with the same options for a given query. That's actually how tRPC are going to rewrite their tanstack react query integration, by simplifying the actual tRPC layer.

[ranguy]

bro, I had to subscribe to you. In the middle of the video I wanted to go and play video games, but at the same time I couldn't stop listening. And all I could think was, "wait, this is exactly what I need"

[SirFlukealot]

I can now reference 0:40 in my resume as evidence of me being a Senior + developer as I am subscribed to Theo

[OGChat]

Super cool tech stack... and I agree, rss + blog time was so much better than current closed garden social media plats...