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Readme.md

💡 Ricochet.js

Ricochet.js is a multi-purpose JSON/File store with serverless capabilities.

Main features are:

  • Deploy Ricochet.js once and for many website (multi-tenancy)
  • Use the ready to use general APIs:
    • A JSON store
    • A File store
  • Ability to calls remote javascript functions like Serverless or FaaS application
  • Avoid frontend/backend version disconnect by deploying your backend code alongside to your frontend code on the same CDN/Server.
  • 0 knowledge password-less authentification service
  • Cloud ready, choose your stores:
    • JSON : Memory, NeDB (Disk), MongoDB, more coming...
    • File : Memory, Disk, S3 compatible, more coming...
  • Can manage multiple site with only one backend
  • Easily scalable
  • Works on edges

Some use cases:

  • You don't want to deploy your backend server each time you make a backend modification
  • You need a simple backend with only some specific code
  • You want to store structured data and files
  • You want frontend and backend code to be updated at same time

❓Why Ricochet.js?

When you create a web application, you nearly always need a server mainly for 3 reasons:

  • you need to persist structured and binary data
  • you need to execute some code that can't be modified or must not be accessible by the client for security reason.
  • You want some periodic tasks to be executed.

Ricochet.js propose features to fullfil this requirements in an elegant way.

First a Rest API to store key-values document, so you can store your structured data. And for each stored resource, you can associate binary files like images, or documents.

When you need custom code, you can bundle javascript code that will be executed in secured context on server side with access to this two stores.

Finally you can schedule hourly or daily actions.

To use Ricochet.js you need a running instance of the server. You have two option:

  • Using an hosted version (jump to project initialization section)
  • Running your own instance, continue with the next section

💫 Start your own local instance of Ricochet.js

First you need to define a random secret string and store it the RICOCHET_SECRET env variable or in .env file if you prefer.

The following command helps you to create such a file.

echo RICOCHET_SECRET=`cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1` > .env

Now you can start a Ricochet.js server by using npx (🚨 you should have npm version >=7 to support mongodb or nedb store backend):

npx ricochetjs

Or install Ricochet.js globally and launch the server:

npm install -g ricochetjs
# then
ricochetjs

By default, data are stored in memory so if you restart the server, all data are lost. The default configuration is for development purpose only. See server configuration for more customization and how to use persistent storages.

Now the server is running so you can create a new ricochet site. To do it, visit the Ricochet.js URL with a browser. By default http://localhost:4000.

Fill the left form with wanted information and click the Create button.

The result should look like the following image:

From the response you MUST save the key value, this key is used to encrypt your server side code hosted alongside with your frontend code. This is the ONLY chance to get it so keep it for later and keep it secret.

In the meantime you should have received a mail with a link you must visit to confirm the site creation. This is a security measure to prevent abuse. Click the link to validate the site creation. If you've not yet configured any mail provider, check out the server logs to read the confirmation link.

Now, your server is ready and a site exists. You can follow the next steps to create a new site project.

⚡ Initialize your backend project

Since you have a Ricochet.js instance up and running, you can use the project starter to initialize your backend.

Starter usage

Use degit to make your own copy of the starter repository where you want (A good place can be in the backend folder of your project):

npx degit https://github.com/jrmi/ricochetjs-starter

Then install dependencies:

npm install

Create a .env file from the .env.dist file and customize it by adding your previously generated site key with Ricochet.js.

You can serve the default project by executing:

npm run serve

or if you use an external instance of Ricochet.js, you can use the tunnel version:

npm run tunnel

Test with curl

To test the script, a Ricochet.js server must be running.

In the following example we assume that you use your local Ricochet.js instance available on http://localhost:4000 but you can replace this URL by any ricochet instance that have access to your backend package server. We also assume that your backend server is on http://localhost:9000 but if you use a tunnel, use the address given by the npm command.

You can use curl to test the API:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json
X-Ricochet-Origin: http://localhost:9000" -d '{"some":"data"}' http://localhost:4000/exampleSite/store/publicData/

And get the of the publicData box:

curl -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json
X-Ricochet-Origin: http://localhost:9000" http://localhost:4000/exampleSite/store/publicData/

Starter customization

You can freely modify src/index.js file to declare your store, hooks, custom functions, ...

Remember that the server bundle will be encrypted and should be used by ricochet server with corresponding site configuration.

Remember to also define a SECRET environment variable for the server (Can be defined in same .env file if you start the server from here).

The server should be listening on http://localhost:4000.

Deploy your project

Since you finish your code, you must bundle it to prepare deployment:

npm run build

Yes, that's true, you are bundling the backend code with webpack!

This bundle can now be deployed on any content delivery network and can (should?) be deployed alongside with your frontend code.

💪 How does it work?

Each time you call an API you should have at least one of this HTTP header: x-ricochet-origin, referer, origin. These headers are used to determine the website where the backend code is stored. Let's call it the <ricochetOrigin>. By default if you use a browser, referer or origin should be included by default.

On the first call of any API endpoint for a specific siteId, the file <ricochetOrigin>/ricochet.json is downloaded, decrypted and executed by the Ricochet.js server.

This is the encrypted server side bundle that configure Ricochet.js for this siteId.

This file MUST exists before being able to call any Rest API.

The script must define and export a main function that has access to Ricochet.js server context. The main function is called with an object as parameters that contains the following properties:

  • store: Allow to access the JSON store.
  • hooks: Add some hooks to the store.
  • functions: Add arbitrary custom function to the API.
  • schedules: Schedules hourly or daily function calls.

All this parameters are explained in next sections.

This script is executed on Ricochet.js server so don't rely on browser capabilities.

This script allow you to configure the ricochet server for your siteId in a declarative way.

Once you have initialized your site with the setup script (the ricochet.json file) you can use the rest API to store data, files or call custom functions.

📞 Server API

Store

To access JSON store from the setup function in your ricochet.json file, you can use the store parameter.

This a store instance scoped to the current siteId. You have access to the following methods:

store.createOrUpdate(boxId, options): create, if not exist, or update a boxId store. Options are:

Name Description Default
security Security model of the box. Values are string: "public", "readOnly", "private" "private"

store.list(boxId, options): list box content. Options are:

Name Description Default
sort Name of sort field "_id"
asc Ascending order ? true
skip How many result to skip 0
limit Limit result count. 50
onlyFields Limit result to this fields. []
q A query to filter results. The query must be written in the pivotql query language. ""

store.save(boxId, id, data): Create or update the given id resource with given data.

store.update(boxId, id, data): Update the resource. Fails if not existing.

store.delete(boxId, id) try to delete the corresponding resource.

Hooks

Hooks allows you to customize the way data are accessed for one specific box or for all. You can add a hook by pushing a function to the hooks array from parameters.

By using hooks you can customize behavior of the generic Rest APIs to change way they work.

Custom functions

Custom functions can be defined by adding a function to the function object. The key will be the endpoint and the value the executed callback. The key is the name of the function and the value must be a function executed when the query is received.

Then you can call the function later using the following endpoint.

ANY on /:siteId/execute/:functionName/

Returns the value returned by the function.

Schedules

Define daily or hourly schedules by pushing functions to this object for the key daily or hourly.

[More details coming soon...]

🔌 Rest API

This section describe the Rest api of Ricochet.js.

GET on /:siteId/store/:boxId/

To list available resources in this box.

POST on /:siteId/store/:boxId/

With a JSON payload.

To create a new ressource in boxId

GET on /:siteId/store/:boxId/:resourceId

returns: previously saved resourceId from boxId.

PUT on /:siteId/store/:boxId/:resourceId

With a JSON payload to update the resource with this Id.

POST on /:siteId/store/:boxId/:resourceId/file

To add a file to this resource.

Returns the file Path for later uses.

GET on /:siteId/store/:oxId/:resourceId/file

List the files associated to this ressource.

ANY on /:siteId/execute/:functionName/:id?

Execute a previously defined in setup custom function and return the result to caller.

The functions have access to some globally defined variables receives an object with following properties:

  • store the very same store API used for JSON store API. Allow you to do some protected operation
  • method the http verb used
  • query a dict of query parameters
  • body the request payload
  • id the optionnal id if providen

POST on /:siteId/auth/

By posting a JSON containing a user email:

{"userEmail": "user@example.com"}

an email will be sent to this address containing a link to authenticate to the platform.

This link is: <ricochetOrigin>/login/:userId/:token

You frontend should handle this url and extract the userId and the token to authentify the user.

userId is the unique user identifier corresponding to the used email adress.

The token is valid during 1 hour.

POST on /:siteId/auth/verify/:userId/:token

Allow the client to verify the token and authenticate against the service.

GET on /:siteId/auth/check

Allow the client to verify if a user is authenticated. Returns 403 http code if not authenticated.

POST on /_register/

To register new site. A mail is send each time you want to create a website to confirm the creation.

The json content should look like this:

{
  "siteId": "the new site Id",
  "name": "Name displayed in mail",
  "owner": "owner email address for security, confirmation mails are send here",
  "emailFrom": "email address displayed in email sent for this site"
}

In the response you'll get an extra key property. You MUST save it for later use. This is the ONLY chance to get it. This is the encryption key you need to crypt your ricochet.json file.

PATCH on /_register/:siteId

To update a site configuration. To confirm the modification, a mail is send to the site owner.

The json content should look like this:

{
  "name": "Name displayed in mail",
  "emailFrom": "email address displayed in email sent for this site"
}

You can't modify owner email (yet?).

⚙️ Server configuration

You can configure your instance by settings environment variables or using .env file:

| Name | description | default value | | ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------- | | SERVER_HOST | '0.0.0.0' to listen from all interfaces. | 127.0.0.1 | | SERVER_PORT | Server listen on this port. | 4000 | | SERVER_NAME | Server name displayed on mail for example. | Ricochet.js | | RICOCHET_SECRET | Secret to hash password and cookie. Keep it safe. | | | SITE_REGISTRATION_ENABLED | Set to 0 to disable site registration. | 1 | | FILE_STORAGE | Configure file store type. Allowed values: 'memory', 'disk', 's3'. | memory | | STOREBACKEND | Configure JSON store provider. Allowed values: 'memory', 'nedb', 'mongodb'. | memory | | EMAIL* | To configure email provider. Put "fake" in EMAIL_HOST to log mail instead of sending them. | |

Note: "memory" stores are for development purpose only and remember that you loose all your data each time you stop the server.

Note: for "mongodb" backend, you need to install npm install mongodb@3. Note: for "nedb" backend, you need to install npm install @seald-io/nedb.

If you use disk file store you need to configure this variables:

| Name | description | default value | | ---------------- | --------------------------- | ------------------ | | DISK_DESTINATION | Base path of the file store | /tmp/ricochet_file |

If you use S3 file store configure also this variables:

| Name | description | default value | | ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- | | S3_ACCESS_KEY | S3 access key | | | SB_SECRET_KEY | S3 secret key | | | S3_ENDPOINT | S3 endpoint | | | S3_BUCKET | S3 bucket | | | S3_REGION | S3 Region | | | S3_PROXY | Set to "1" to enable to proxy file (otherwise it's a redirect to the file) | 0 | | S3_SIGNED_URL | Set to "0" to disabled usage of signed URL | true | | S3_CDN | Set the CDN prefix to enable it | |

For nedb JSON store provider:

| Name | description | default value | | -------------------- | ----------------------------- | ------------- | | NEDB_BACKEND_DIRNAME | NeDB base path for DB storage | |

For mongodb JSON store provider:

| Name | description | default value | | ---------------- | ------------------------- | ------------- | | MONGODB_URI | Mongodb configuration URI | | | MONGODB_DATABASE | Database to use | |

🛠 Prepare ricochet.js for development

Clone the repository then install dependencies:

npm ci

Create .env file from .env.dist file and change the values.

and start the instance in dev mode:

npm run dev