# realworld-apps/realworld

"The mother of all demo apps" — Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone powered by React, Angular, Node, Django, and many more

Repository: https://github.com/realworld-apps/realworld
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/realworld
Homepage: https://docs.realworld.show
Language: TypeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-08-26T06:00:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3841, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 84139, forks 7654 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:22.092728+00:00)

## What it is
RealWorld is a collection of exemplary fullstack demo applications — the same Medium.com clone implemented in over 100 frameworks and languages, all adhering to a shared API spec. It serves as a learning resource showing how real-world applications are built across different frontends and backends that can be mixed and matched.

## Use cases
- compare how the same app is built in React vs Angular vs Django
- learn a new framework with a realistic example beyond a todo app
- find a reference implementation for a fullstack Medium clone
- validate a backend against a standard API spec test suite
- practice building a frontend against a hosted demo API
- create a new framework implementation following a starter guide

## When to choose
- you want a realistic, spec-driven example app for learning or evaluating a framework
- you need a common API spec and E2E test suite to validate a fullstack implementation
- you want to compare idiomatic code across many frameworks side by side

## When to avoid
- you need a production-ready application to deploy as-is
- you need a minimal hello-world style starter or boilerplate generator
- you need a demo tailored to a specific business domain rather than a Medium-style blog

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, api-framework, e2e-testing, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, backend, tutorials, education, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform, python
- tags: demo-app, medium-clone, api-spec, framework-comparison, example-applications, fullstack, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- realworld-apps/realworld (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:22.092728+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:13:54.540404+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/realworld-apps/realworld (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:22.092728+00:00, sha e895a7c9bdaf)
  - homepage: https://docs.realworld.show (fetched 2026-08-28T17:40:07.529964+00:00, sha 3a658dc585a0)
  - site_page: https://docs.realworld.show/introduction (fetched 2026-08-28T17:40:07.538659+00:00, sha 482aef5d4eb8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.