autonomous.contact

A hub for communities as a single service with no required external dependencies.

About

This software tries to make it very easy to host a community with a single container and some disk space.

Everything is written to flat files on the disk, with symlinks used for indexing, eg:

(I would welcome a PR that allowed for using something like sqlite, or optionally other dbs.)

The code minimizes external dependencies, and those that exist have been reviewed (line by line in many cases).

Live-loads external dependencies from (trying to keep this list very short):

• OpenStreetMap

Screenshots

Building a container

```
podman build -t <tagname> .
```

Running a container

systemd compatible podman service:

# autonomous.contact container
[Container]
ContainerName=autonomous.contact
Image=localhost/<tagname>
PublishPort=8000:8000
Volume=/path/to/your/data/dir/.fsdb:/app/.fsdb/:Z
Volume=/path/to/your/data/dir/public/files:/app/public/files:Z
Environment=SERVERUS_PUT_PATHS_ALLOWED=/app/public/files
Environment=SERVERUS_DELETE_PATHS_ALLOWED=/app/public/files

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

[Service]
Restart=unless-stopped

Getting Started Developing

1. Install Deno

   Run their shell script (note: as yourself, not root)

   curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh | sh
   

   Or using Nix:

   nix-shell -p deno
   

2. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://andyburke.dev/andyburke/autonomous.contact.git

3. Start the server:

   deno run task serve

4. Navigate to http://localhost:8000

5. Edit some code and check it out.