RealWorld Example App

AdonisJS codebase containing real world examples (CRUD, auth, advanced patterns, etc) that adheres to the RealWorld spec and API.

This codebase was created to demonstrate a fully fledged fullstack application built with AdonisJS including CRUD operations, authentication, routing, pagination, and more.

We've gone to great lengths to adhere to the AdonisJS community styleguides & best practices.

For more information on how to this works with other frontends/backends, head over to the RealWorld repo.

How it works

Since AdonisJS is a "convention over configuration" type of framework, this codebase follows the architecture described by the documentation; starting with the initial web project scaffold. Along with the default packages, the following official packages are used as well:

• @adonisjs/lucid: Database connections and ORM data layer (this app connects to a local sqlite database stored in tmp/)
• @adonisjs/lucid-slugify: Generates slugs on models based on other fields
• @adonisjs/auth: Authentication management integrated with Lucid (this app uses cookie sessions)

The app uses resourceful routes and controller actions for managing functionality.

No client-side JavaScript is used as none was required to match the expected feature-set described by the RealWorld spec.

Functionality is tested end-to-end using the provided testing framework with a custom plugin to integrate Playwright browser control and Testing Library queries. Run pnpm test, after going through the "Getting started" section below, to see the full coverage. These run headless in Firefox by default; view the live browser interactions by setting the HEADLESS environment variable to "0".

See the custom plugin code in the tests/bootstrap.ts until it is abstracted out into its own package

Getting started

This codebase relies on Node.js version 14+ as the runtime and pnpm for package management. I suggest using something like volta to quickly install and manage Node.js and associated tooling on your system. After those prerequisites have been met, run the follow commands to get started:

cp .env.example .env
pnpm install
pnpm db:setup
pnpm dev

• cp .env.example .env: creates environment variable for local development
• pnpm install: this installs the runtime and development dependencies for the project
• pnpm db:setup: runs all the pending database migrations and seeds the sqlite database located in the tmp/ directory
• pnpm dev: starts the application and watches for file changes to trigger restarting it as needed