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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 22:26:44 JST Aral Balkan

   Kitten¹ now keeps two JSDB² databases per project: an internal one ('kitten._db`) that holds data Kitten manages (sessions, uploads, etc.) and the default one (`kitten.db`) that holds your own tables.

   You’ll mostly only care about the latter.

   I also took the opportunity to create a Database App Module example and document it in the readme:

   https://codeberg.org/kitten/app#database-app-module

   ¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
   ² https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb

   #Kitten #SmallWeb #web #dev #database #JavaScriptDatabase #jsdb

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 22:29:41 JST Aral Balkan

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     Hopefully these should be the last of the large refactors/changes until launch.

     This was necessary to optimise server start time (and it just makes sense not to pollute the database used by apps with data not specifically stored there by the app for the same reasons you don’t pollute the global namespace).

     (There’s still a lot to build – most importantly automatic updates but it’s getting there… one small step at a time.)

     #Kitten #SmallWeb #web #dev

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 22:36:02 JST Aral Balkan

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     • fenix

     @jla 💕

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     fenix (jla@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 22:36:03 JST fenix

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     @aral inspiring... thanks for sharing !

     #KISS

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 22:56:55 JST Aral Balkan

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     • EamonnMR

     @EMR Haha, indeed :)

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     EamonnMR (emr@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 22:56:56 JST EamonnMR

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     @aral "Hopefully these should be the last of the large refactors/changes until launch." famous last words

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:15:23 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Micah

     @awaspnest Haha, glad you like it. There’s more to do but the goal is to use it to enable people (including me) to build peer-to-peer Small Web sites.

     Here’s a very simple example of what I mean:

     https://ar.al/2023/02/20/end-to-end-encrypted-kitten-chat/

     #Kitten #SmallWeb #peerToPeer #e2ee #web #personalWeb

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     Micah (awaspnest@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:15:24 JST Micah

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     @aral Wow. This an astounding amount of work! You basically recreated a friendlier version of Nextjs in your own style. I have no idea who the target audience is besides me, but this is incredible.

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     MonstersX (monstersx@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:23:44 JST MonstersX

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     @aral this is very cool. in your opinion if i had , say 20 kitten apps running on 1 machine, would that be difficult to manage? or they all just get their own SystemD service and we're good to go?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:23:44 JST Aral Balkan

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     • MonstersX

     @Monstersx Thanks. The way it’s designed (for production) is that it’s one Kitten service per server. That way it can make some assumptions and manage the TLS certificate, etc.

     That said, on your own devices, you can run as many as you like/system can handle on different ports. You’d have to manage the services, exposing ports and handling TLS certificates, etc., yourself though.

     (The Small Web design keeps things simple to optimise for ease of deployment and maintenance.)

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:25:27 JST Aral Balkan

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     • MonstersX

     @Monstersx (Also, thank you for the kind words. Appreciate it.) :)

     :kitten:💕

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 14:38:24 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Allium planter

     @BrahmaBelarusian 💕

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     Allium planter (brahmabelarusian@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 14:38:26 JST Allium planter

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     @aral thanks for this update in this project, as at this point Kitten is amongst my top 10, tech tasks to do now after I start my tech updates overall (which will be very soon after the roof is done if I'm not sizably injured by that). The simplicity factor is probably amongst my favorite aspects of it, it's a approachability to me, as someone who's spent the most time within coding & prompt realms just before Microsoft basically stole windows from Apple.