Toying around with the zoup spec to see where that may lead.

The idea is the following:

I want to use Next.js and Typescript to build an implementation of the given spec.md to get some insight into how that spec behaves and to get a rough idea of the work required to get it running.

The first prototype shall keep all state in local files in the hope that this will aid development and setup and be an ok starting point. It should always be possible to add more complexity and dependencies later.

This project uses node and yarn. If you've got node installed on your machine chances are you're good to go.

Execute yarn install to locally install the node dependencies into the node_modules directory. Afterwards execute yarn dev to run a development server at localhost:3000.

For production the project is first built using yarn build and afterwards executed with yarn start.

The linter is executed with yarn lint.

Some configuration is done via environment variables. In addition to the environment these can be set via a .env.local file. The checked in file .env.example contains example values and lists all used environment variables.

For the prototype user handling is currently realized as follows:

User data is stored in data/users/<username>.json. We save at least a name and a salted bcrypt hash of a password. User login is based on this password and there is currently no way to support users in resetting their passwords.

User registration depends on invite keys. An initial invite key needs to be configured via the INITIAL_INVITE_KEY environment variable. It is intended that users can create further invite keys. The idea behind this is to support some organic tradeoff between (somewhat unlikely) but possible growth and enabling users to self-register. As there are currently no means to support any kind of moderation it seemed helpful to have some mechanism like this for people sharing a prototypical server.

• User handling
  • Login
  • Registration
  • Logout
  • Deletes
    • Memo to remember deleting a users data/posts and what that will imply
  • localStorage for sessionData
  • Invites
• Repost
• Copying/proxying of assets?
• React
• Pings, vias/… for posts
• Friends & Following