The Hive Application Framework could be of great help to you. It is designed to make developing on Hive easy. Basically it will allow you to create in your favorite language while tying into the blockchain. The base level stuff will be handled for you.

A good place to start is to read the posts by @blocktrades regarding that. He provides good updates as to where it stands. I am sure you could find out the Gitlab info there also.

It is great to see people interested in building projects on Hive. We need more of that.

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