Sample Client

[marcogruhl]

I would write a small WPF client if you think this is a good idea ...

[Xwilarg]

That sounds like a great idea, would give a good example on how to use the library
However I wonder if WPF is the best choice since it's Windows only

[marcogruhl]

WPF is what i'm familiar with. What are you thinking of? MAUI? ASP? Blazor? Console?

[Xwilarg]

Ah if you're more familliar with WPF it's okay

On my side I'm usually using Avalonia which is crossplatform

[marcogruhl]

I think I go with WPF ... later we can add other clients!? That looks fun: Terminal.Gui 😄
PS: Avalonia looks very interesting ... almost exactly like WPF.

[Xwilarg]

It's the first time I heard of Terminal.Gui, it indeed looks really cool

[marcogruhl]

The Sample Client is completed.

My goals were:

• visualize the way the API works (Expression -> Rule -> Stream)
• implement all tweet related functionality
• fill in working default values
• persist configuration
• don't use external libraries

Future development

• reset expression to default values
• load expression from rule
• more clean up
• all non tweet related functionality
• console client
• more non-api stuff (style, sorting, ...)

It's gotten a little bigger then I intentionally thought 😅

I am not sure if i should create a pull request or create a complete new repository.

Please look at it share your thoughts about it! You can find it here: WPF Client

Screenshot:

[Xwilarg]

Ah I don't think I ever saw that message, oops
But your client looks really great! Want to add it to the repository?

[marcogruhl]

No Problem.
Since then i put it in an own repository (TweetCommander) to take part on the Chirp Developer Challenge.
Currently i tend to make a simple console client with the samples from the README and maybe some more to cover the whole (implemented) functionality of the api.
like i said, the "TweetCommander" is maybe a little overblown as sample for an api.
We can put a link to it as an example for a visual implementation ...

[Xwilarg]

That's a pretty cool website, I didn't know about it and sure, we can put it in the README I think it could be a great idea