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We will show how to build a full Scala client and server application by illustrating it with a use case pushing the limits of what can be done: a distributed secure Social Web server.

We do this by using emerging W3C standards: using JSON-LD for distributed data [0] , the Linked Data Protocol 1 as a generic web API, with WebID for distributed authentication [2].

In order to avoid duplication of code and to give us maximum flexibility we have developed banana-rdf [3] - a scala RDF library that allows us to elegantly write code that can be used both on the web client using scala-js and on the server, whilst allowing us to change implementation with one line of code. On the client we gain maximum speed with a scala-js wrapping of the Facebook React framework, allowing us to write clean functional code.

This project is open source with more details on the wiki https://github.com/read-write-web/wiki/wiki

For those interested in digging deeper a hands on session will be organised in cooperation with OuiShare labs on Wednesday 10 th December in London.

For more information and to register head to the workshop page here

[0] http://json-ld.org/ 1 http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/ [2] http://webid.info/spec/ [3] https://github.com/w3c/banana-rdf

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