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Auto-indexing service and GraphQL API for AT Protocol Records
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1# Quickslice
2
3> **Warning**
4> This project is in early development. APIs may change without notice.
5
6Quickslice is a quick way to spin up an [AppView](https://atproto.com/guides/glossary#app-view) 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.
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8## The Problem
9
10Building an AppView from scratch means writing a lot of infrastructure code:
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12- Jetstream connection and event handling
13- Record ingestion and validation
14- Database schema design and normalization
15- XRPC API endpoints for querying and writing data
16- OAuth session management and PDS writes
17- Efficient batching when resolving related records
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19This adds up before you write any application logic.
20
21## What Quickslice Does
22
23Quickslice handles all of that automatically:
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25- **Connects to Jetstream** and tracks the record types defined in your Lexicons
26- **Indexes** relevant records into a database (SQLite or Postgres)
27- **Generates GraphQL** queries, mutations, and subscriptions from your Lexicon definitions
28- **Handles OAuth** and writes records back to the user's PDS
29- **Enables joins** by DID, URI, or strong reference, so you can query a status and its author's profile in one request
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31## When to Use It
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33- You want to skip the AppView boilerplate
34- You want to prototype Lexicon data structures quickly
35- You want OAuth handled for you
36- You want to ship your AppView already
37
38## Next Steps
39
40[Build Statusphere with Quickslice](tutorial.md): A hands-on tutorial showing what Quickslice handles for you