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.

Documentation

The Stations Project is documented here.