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RE: How easy it is to develop STEEM blockchain apps - with video tutorial!
It's great to have tutorials like that.
However I am a firm believer that we should go the extra step and provide some 'higher-level' tools than SteemJS to help developer create bigger STEEM apps more easily.
I believe if we had a good 'boilerplate app', for deploying a simple react-based STEEM app, with STEEMJs, some 3rd party services like AskSteem, SteemConnect, markdown syntax, maybe IPFS for file upload, etc. Then a lot of projects would come out of it.
Interacting with the chain is super easy as as it is already, but building something usable and decent enough for release is much harder for small teams because of the little details.
I don't disagree, although condenser itself is open source and is already a react-based STEEM app using steem-js. I don't know if that meets the qualification for 'simple', but it could potentially be a good starting point for someone to put together a more watered down boilerplate app.
Condenser also has a lot more stuff that a good boilerplate wouldn't need. Steemit a blogging platform on top of STEEM, not everyone has the same use case. Let's say someone wants to make a tic-tac-toe game on top of STEEM, condenser is a terrible starting point. By limiting it to blogging, people are not being innovative and are only copying what already exists.
If someone starts anything like a boilerplate on github, I'd be really glad to help on some stuff
http://SteemCentral.ml is interested and will pay you guys to do something innovative
Just launched
https://steemit.com/steemit/@coincentral/whitepaper-for-our-7-new-steem-projects-by-steemcentral-ml-coincentral-and-cyberspace
You should try to get some support for this from Steemit Inc or whales/witnesses.
This sounds like an interesting idea. I've been looking to get involved in some kind of worthwhile project on Github, as although I've been developing for years, I haven't really used it all that much. This kind of thing wouldn't want to be using something like react would it? I don't know react (yet), but from what I see, although it looks great, it seems like quite a steep learning curve for beginners. Do you mean perhaps extending Bootstrap with some Steem API calls for example, or something else?
And if anyone wants some help with UX/UI design please let me know as well!