StoryFontBackendNim

A re-implementation of the storyfont backend in nim. This is a REST-API on top of an sqlite database.

The nim dependencies of this project are:

• Application Server: prologue - https://github.com/planety/prologue
• ORM + connection pooling: norm - https://github.com/moigagoo/norm
• (De)Serializing JSON to/from ORM models: jsony - https://github.com/treeform/jsony
• Simplifaction of model-object construction: constructor - https://github.com/beef331/constructor
• Compressing HTTP Responses: zippy - https://github.com/guzba/zippy
• Password Hashing: Nimword - https://github.com/PhilippMDoerner/nimword
• Sending emails: smtp - https://github.com/nim-lang/smtp

Beyond that in terms of tooling and software this project uses:

• Flyway - For database migrations using raw SQL
• Docker - For containerization with alpine
• Nginx - As reverse proxy HTTP server
• Musl - To link the binary against instead of glibc for use with alpine
• SQLite - The database

Feature Scope

Nimstoryfont is the backend of a CRUD heavy web application, previously called AldruneWiki. It is a wiki capable of hosting dnd campaigns, capable of highly performant processing of requests and pageloads. The corresponding frontend SPA written in Angular is to be found here: https://github.com/PhilippMDoerner/AldruneWikiFrontEnd

Campaigns can be administered by the campaign's individual admin. They can add and remove members as they desire.

It allows writing articles for the following parts of a DnD Campaign:

• Character
• Creature
• Diaryentries (aka Session notes)
• Items of any importance
• Locations
• Organizations and their members
• Quests
• Rules
• Sessions (When they happened, not what happened in them, that is to be recorded in Diaryentries)
• Spells
• Quotes

Beyond that notable features include:

• Displaying (leaflet) maps on which locations can be marked with customizable icons
• Upload and stream recordings of your sessions, including timestamping them for later use