The Stations Project

Status: Work in progress, not usable.

Use Cases

• Social networks
• Collaboration space
• Personal cloud
• ...

What is the Stations Project?

The Stations Project will allow users to run a webserver on their local machines. This server will have the following features:

• User accounts
• Groups (e.g. admins)
• Permission management (by groups)
• Tickets (where multiple users should approve an action)
• WebServer
• Logs

What is Special about this?

The Stations Project is designed to be completely modular. This means:

• Modules (e.g. user-management) use CLIs instead of APIs
• Modules can be written in any programming language and still be compatible
• Modules have to conform to the Stations Project Protocol (which defines the CLIs and file structures)

Basics

The Stations Project is based on NodeJS. Why?

• Web frontend is also written in JavaScript or TypeScript
• Scripting languages have no build time
• Scripting languages are more flexible
• Fast compared to most other scripting languages
• When needed, compiled modules can still be implemented (modularity)

There is an NPM organization for the Stations Project, see the Backend Development Spaces page.