Solid Info App

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I just have finished GitHub - ewingson/solid-info: show some info from pod / Solid Info App

No big deal, very simple and basic display of 7 parameters:

  • prompt for your idp
  • foaf:name
  • the webid
  • vcard:fn
  • the preferences file
  • publicTypeIndex
  • privateTypeIndex
  • your root storage container

very valuable learning journey, feel free to explore.

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Does what it’s supposed to for me, congrats!

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next I’ll try some (same simple and basic) CRUD operations…

using an outdated (old) version of Noel’s and Rosano’s Hello world GitHub - ewingson/nox (fork) as start

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Hello!

It’s great to hear you’ve completed your solid-info project! Building a simple app to display key Solid Pod parameters is an excellent way to grasp the fundamentals of the Solid decentralized web. This projects provides a solid foundation for understanding core concepts like WebID and decentralized data storage, which are essential for creating more complex applications. It’s a significant milestone in your learning journey and a great first step toward building on the Solid platform.

Ellen261Rister

hello Ellen.

thank you for your nice and encouraging feedback.
I’ve quoted it above to make it stay visible.

I wouldn’t have been able to finish that piece without learning from Noel’s code.

I’ve been lurking for a loong while and provide the server in Strasbourg (mainly bash maintenance) for a while.

now I wanted to understand and dive in deeper and again, thank you.

I will let the community know, when I’ve finished GitHub - ewingson/solid-basic: r/w (CRUD) that should add CRUD operations.

Matthias(@ewingson)

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now, thinking it over a day later, it might have been an AI chatbot…

prove the opposite !

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It was an AI bot…

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[edit]

obsolete sidecomment, already in the queue:

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I have created Solid Note App

(code GitHub - ewingson/solid-note-experiment: one-pager · GitHub )

as follow-up and very basic solid CRUD howto learning-lesson.

maybe someone considers it useful.

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Nice work. The progression from read-only pod inspection to a full CRUD note app is exactly the right way to build intuition for how Solid actually works underneath the abstractions.

If you want a ready-made environment to keep learning, we built PDP 101 specifically for this kind of hands-on learning. It is a live Solid app running against a real pod that walks through authentication, reading profile data, and writing resources, so you can poke at a working example and compare it against your own code.

When you are ready to go further, the Private Data Pod Developer Center has everything to get you started. It is a good next stop once the CRUD fundamentals feel solid.

Happy to answer questions if you hit anything unexpected.