Oh and each kind actually does have specific templates. I'm actually working on simplifying that on the back end as we speak.
I was asked to test nostr:npub1m2jphmdkskgnvwl5gplksl9e0zwv2sldqf9mwlpz6tyymz84g9fsqr3wgu's new #nostr web client under development, naturally I couldn't resist! :catJAM:
One thing that stands out to me, is that it definitely feels "different". I think it's because he built his own rendering engine for nostr events from what I've read. I like how super-clean it is!
Lots of work to be done, but I think it's already an awesome start to what could be a great web client!
Feedback so far:
- It's great to see that any event kinds can be shown, but I think each kind will need specific formatting to make it contextually relevant in the feed.
- If I click Follows or Global, the kinds tabs go back to the default setting of "All": I'd like that to persist, so if I'm on "Streams", it stays there.
- Would love a way to specify a relay, like Follows | Global | Relay
- Love the filtering by kinds as tabs!
Discussion
That's great! Yes I had presumed you would need some sort of template system per kind. There's just... a lot of kinds to work through! 😹
Yet another good argument to have UI directives as nostr events. when someone publishes a NIP, they can also publish a few UI directive events that clients like this can choose to fetch to learn how to render - no-code on the client-side.
Formstr has had UI directives as nostr events for years 🤣
Where can I learn more about that? is the formstr client the best entry point to start investigating? https://github.com/abh3po/nostr-forms
So far I've (tangentially) discovered NRPC and your example nrpc_server - both of which are extremely interesting!!
Yep nostr-forms is the client, NRPC is awesome, theres an unmerged forms NIP:
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1190
I need to simplify the structure of the NIP so it doesnt scare away people, but if you leave the access control part out its fairly simple, similar to NIP-88, infect NIP-88 evolved from it.
okay yea i was looking for the NIP, just found it myself, thanks! checking it out