A minimal and barebone pastebin like application developed in NodeJS. Initial plan is to keep it as simple and efficient as possible, barebone, no fancy UI have been planned yet. It is very easy to create a frontend for this application as the standard is set by the backend. Depending on the time I have, I'll think about developing a frontend.
Running your own instance of StoredIn is quite easy, for development or for deployment purposes as it uses NodeJS.
The software(s) needed to run StoredIn are nodejs and npm. They provide all the tools necessary to launch your own instance.
- Refer to the official NodeJS download page to learn how to install
nodejsandnpmin your system. - Change the directory to where the project files are located.
- Install all the necessary packages in
package.jsonusingnpm installin the root of the project directory (through terminal). - Check the
config.jsfile located at the root of the project directory and make changes as needed. - Launch the server using
npm startornode app.jsand the server should be available at the port specified in theconfig.jsfile.
Using this for storage is very easy using curl but anyone could easily write a tiny python script to create pastes. This application was written with the sole purpose of working with terminals.
curl --data "data=$(cat somefile.ext)" https://paste.prashant.mecat somefile.ext | curl --data-urlencode data@- https://paste.prashant.me
In addition, if you can create alias in Linux machines, you can create an alias as such.
echo 'alias sim="curl --data-urlencode data@- https://paste.prashant.me"' >> ~/.bash_aliasesYou might have to source ~/.bash_aliases in your config file, depending on which shell you use -
- If you use
zsh,echo 'source ~/.bash_aliases' >> ~/.zshrc - If you use plain
bash, it might already be in there or do the same.echo 'source ~/.bash_aliases' >> ~/.bashrc
Once you have the alias set in your config, you can create a paste simply with cat somefile.ext | sim.