Daniel Roe - Building Elk: Rapid Development with Nuxt 3 - Vuejs Amsterdam 2023

amazing um I am so glad to be to be back here um it feels like only a few months ago that it was uh view Jess Amsterdam last year and we were a lot has happened since then we've released next three

um and uh and we have a plan for 2023. so there's lots of exciting things coming in the next world but today I didn't want to just show you next from scratch um I would love to do that another time I thought I would show you another project we've been working on called elk and give you a bit of a feel for what is possible with nox3 in the real world so um I should probably say who I am first

um I'm I'm Daniel I'm I'm Daniel Rowe um I'm uh I'm on the next team before that I was in agency world and then in SAS World building products and working with clients and I was a user of next I absolutely loved next and because I I really believe in the in open source I love receiving the amazing work of other people and using it and getting to

try it out it feels incredible doesn't it when someone releases something into the world and and you get to try it out and actually use it yourself and and for me a big part is I want to do that back I want to also um do whatever I can um that other people can use too I guess I'm not saying anything unique right we all believe in this or a lot of us do um and so I I got involved in contributing to and helping out uh with with next and you can find out some of the projects I'm involved with are there

um you can find me on Twitter at Daniel C Rowe or on Mastodon at Daniel road.dev and um I'll tell you more about that in a moment this is where I normally am I'm normally at my desk at home uh answering GitHub issues or on Discord and one of my three cats is probably there that is Lily uh I can tell you that um when we uh I feel it was a bit of a rescue the people who um were looking after Lily before us

called her Hitler which I felt was a very unfair characterization for such a beautiful and lovely cat um and I'll probably have a cup of coffee in my hands so this is what um this is how elk uh started so a few uh it was probably around the time of the next three release um Anthony who you'll hear from in just a moment sent a Discord message to the um our little team Channel saying yeah it would be cool if we could create a next version of Mastodon and even host

our own server a couple of days later a repository invite appeared in my inbox and more contributors started joining and it really grew very quickly even though it was completely closed enclosed beta it absolutely exploded we have had over 130 contributors up so far we've had almost 2 000 commits since we started the project in November so it

really has grown very quickly but I should probably say what elk is and if you're not slightly intimidated by Looking In Those Eyes then uh well I certainly am so a mastodon is a new Social Network a new kind of social network so it is powered by a protocol called activity Pub and it's a little bit like email so instead of having one Central server where you post your Tweet or update and