JavaScript imageboard, or JSIB for short, is an attempt to create an imageboard software that is based on javascript rather than PHP, python, perl etc.
I'd like to achieve this using as little third-party code code as possible. By that, I mean that this will be using, as much as I can manage it, vanilla javascript.
I don't intend to use any libraries like jQuery, or any non-standard server software such as node.js.
If it happens that vanilla javascript isn't suffice for a task, or is ludicrously complex, I may decide to start using a library.
As it turns out, I may have been a little bit ambitious starting this without doing any real research. Well, I did a little research, and it seems a near impossibility to create a secure site in javascript that interacts with any form of file or database on the server. So, I'm switching to PHP for the backend, not because javascript couldn't be the backend (I mean, take a look at stuff like node.js,) but rather that PHP is just so much simpler to use as a server language. That said, my earlier writing is also somewhat true. I do want to use vanilla javascript where applicable, and I want to use as few pieces of third-party code as possible, because the goal of this is still to create something simple that helps me learn new things.
##Installation This isn't quite in production phase yet, but it's getting closer. This software now has many of the features you would find on any given imageboard.
If you wish to install VIB, clone the repo into whatever directory pleases you and then set the public folder as the user viewable directory. This can achieved in apache via htaccess or nginx via a server block.
Edit the config.json file in the root of the directory to whatever you wish. Make sure you have an empty database already made. After you've tweaked the config.json to your liking, run install.php. After running this file, delete it immediately to avoid someone else trying to run it.
To add boards, navigate to create_board.html, enter your desired board name and url, and then enter the admin username and password, which by default is admin, admin. This can be changed by editing it in the database. I know this isn't super secure, but I've been more worried about getting the core infrastructure done rather than focus on security, which I will get to before I make an official release.
Please see the LICENSE.md included in the root of this repository. For a summary, please see the following site.
Before contributing, please read through the general information section. The general idea of this repo is to use as little third-party code as possible to complete any given task.
The following types of code are allowed in this repo:
- PHP (I'll be using 7.0, but I probably won't be using many new fancy features, so backwards compatibility is likely (although it should be noted that I haven't done much research on the differences between 7.0 and earlier versions))
- Vanilla JavaScript (ES5 for now, ES6 maybe in the future)
- HTML (5)
- CSS (no SASS/SCSS, or anything of that sort)
- SQL (MySQL and MariaDB should both work, but I'll be testing in MariaDB)
Other things that I haven't thought to put on this list might be okay. If you want to contribute, but don't know if what you want to do follows the guidelines, create an issue with your proposal and I'll try to reply as soon as possible.