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Qworum – A platform for distributed web applications

by xojoc on 9/13/22, 8:24 PM with 4 comments

• by woojoo666 on 9/14/22, 7:57 AM

  This sounds very cool but I'm having trouble seeing the main advantages. The page says:

  > You may ask yourself: "Web applications can already use third-party services through remote API calls, how is Qworum better?". The answer is that currently third-party services can only provide business logic through their APIs (whether they are REST-based or not), whereas Qworum services can also bring the UI that goes along with the business logic. This lightens the workload of Web application developers.

  Can't services already provide UI? Eg a server sending React components to the client.

  If I were to guess, the whole "service web" idea seems to imply that services can run within a client browser, and talk to other services in other user browsers. I admit that could be quite cool, and enable easier development of p2p apps

• by e-clinton on 9/14/22, 11:56 AM

  There are A LOT of words on that page and you have to read all of it to piece together even an elevator pitch. This makes me feel there’s a lack of focus.

  So this thing allows easier integration of UI-driven external services into a web app (auth, payment, ecomm).