Quickslice#

Warning This project is in early development. APIs may change without notice.

Quickslice is a quick way to spin up an AppView for AT Protocol applications. Import your Lexicon schemas and you get a GraphQL API with OAuth authentication, real-time sync from the network, and joins across record types without setting up a database or writing any backend code.

The Problem#

Building an AppView from scratch means writing a lot of infrastructure code:

• Jetstream connection and event handling
• Record ingestion and validation
• Database schema design and normalization
• XRPC API endpoints for querying and writing data
• OAuth session management and PDS writes
• Efficient batching when resolving related records

This adds up before you write any application logic.

What Quickslice Does#

Quickslice handles all of that automatically:

• Connects to Jetstream and tracks the record types defined in your Lexicons
• Indexes relevant records into a database (SQLite or Postgres)
• Generates GraphQL queries, mutations, and subscriptions from your Lexicon definitions
• Handles OAuth and writes records back to the user's PDS
• Enables joins by DID, URI, or strong reference, so you can query a status and its author's profile in one request

When to Use It#

• You want to skip the AppView boilerplate
• You want to prototype Lexicon data structures quickly
• You want OAuth handled for you
• You want to ship your AppView already

Next Steps#

Build Statusphere with Quickslice: A hands-on tutorial showing what Quickslice handles for you