Solid Usable App Tools Project

The Solid project is one of the best known efforts promising to bring individual data ownership to the people of Europe and the world. While Solid has many use cases, a common example is an alternative to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter where a user can own their own social media data. But, Solid's current specification, implementations, and developer tools are not yet able to support a full-fledged social media alternative. This project will aide the ongoing specification and developer tool development for Solid by filling in the gaps that are currently preventing a "home-run" app from being created on Solid.

Particular areas of concern for this project are: Authentication for Mobile Apps and Bots, Real-Time Notifications, and Easier Devtools (which caters also for developer that lack much prior knowledge of linked data). In addition, the project will produce a tutorial series to make developing apps on Solid as easy as learning how to use more mainstream technologies like React.