FractalWeb

A minimalist distributed Web communications framework, meet the content you want.

Core design principles

• Give all the possible control to the user, and good defaults
• User owns her data
• User owns her connections
• Give the user real value following good design principles (http://www.timewellspent.io/)
• Bring the user ideas to life

Design

• Written in Typescript
• WebRTC and WebAssembly based

Use cases

• As a blog / microblog
• As a knowledge base
• As a common chat
• As a CMS
• As a corporative chat
• As a CRM

POC 1, Simple messaging

Completed:

• Users can join the server with an id
• Users can connect to other users via id
• Users can send messages between them when connected

POC 2, replicated filtered DB

Design

• Minimal
• Atomic

Each node should have:

• Content index
• People index
  • Followers index

Example:

contentIdx = {
  'contentId': { author: '', timestamp: '', type: '', keywords: [], value: '' },
}

peopleIdx = {
  'peopleId': { followersIdx: { token: '' } },
}

Concepts:

• Content is indexed in contentIdx
• Direct replication: Node replicate their content based on permissions of followersIdx of itself
• Indirect replication: Node replicate third party content based on follower permissions of the author in the followersIdx of peopleIdx

POC 2, Asymetric encryption

Use ssb-keys library for that

Server

The design goal is to have one server per user

Responsabilities:

• Peaple Lookup
• Signaling

TODOs:

• Replicate resources directly to friends
• Secure Authentication via signed message

Roadmap

• Implement direct replication
• Implement indirect replication
• Wifi automatic replication
• Implement Persistent Nodes
• Implement Cryptography in Web via WebAssembly

Ideas

• Automatic Node Protocol Verification: Nodes that are corrupted are isolated

Resources

• https://wearespindle.com/end-to-end-encryption-between-node-js-and-webcrypto/