Tired of Facebook stealing your personal data?

Why not creating your own?

This is a small Facebook-like project made of a single-page HTML5 application and a bunch of servlets to deploy into Google App Engine.

Goals:

• Serverless: server-side is a bunch of Java servlets that you may deploy on any cloud provider that allows standard J2EE (Tomcat, Jetty, etc.)

• MicroServices: each servlet returns one short and specific function.

• Stateless: servlets do not maintain any state (session) information.

• Secure: use a server generated token to authorize each transaction from clients.

• Data Management is disagregated from the main code. A single Java class comprised of static procedures (DataStore.java) is provided to manage data using Google DataStore. Moving to a different data source (MySQL, Mongo, etc.) should be easy

• Single Page : client is a single HTML5 page. Javascript (JQuery) manages the full lifecycle of the client. HTML5 LocalStorage is used to manage auth info and client state.

• PWA: final goal is to make this a Progessive Web App (in progress)