Aral Balkan<p>👋🤓 Goodbye Site.js, Hello Kitten!</p><p>I started working on creating a Small Web¹ server (a peer-to-peer Web server) six years ago² with Site.js.</p><p>Building Site.js was my first attempt. And it resulted in:</p><p>• Auto Encrypt (automatic Let’s Encrypt certificates): <a href="https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-e</span><span class="invisible">ncrypt</span></a></p><p>• Auto Encrypt Localhost (automatic localhost TLS certificates): <a href="https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-e</span><span class="invisible">ncrypt-localhost</span></a></p><p>• @small-tech/https (drop-in Node.js https module replacement with automatic TLS certs everywhere): <a href="https://codeberg.org/small-tech/https" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">codeberg.org/small-tech/https</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>• JSDB: In-process, in-memory JavaScript database that persists to append-only JavaScript logs: <a href="https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>As Site.js reached an evolutionary dead-end, and as I learned from my experiements with replicated data types that replicated data types are *not* a prerequisite for a decentralised web (actual topological decentralisation and ease of use are), I started writing a new server/platform called Kitten from scratch while still making use of the tried and tested modules listed above.</p><p>Last week, I switched over our last site using Site.js to Kitten and, with that, today I’ve sunset³ Site.js:</p><p><a href="https://sitejs.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sitejs.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>For its successor, please see Kitten:</p><p><a href="https://kitten.small-web.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">kitten.small-web.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>If you want to support our work at the Small Technology Foundation, please consider becoming a patron:</p><p><a href="https://small-tech.org/fund-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">small-tech.org/fund-us</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>:kitten:💕</p><p>¹ <a href="https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-com</span><span class="invisible">puter-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/</span></a><br>² <a href="https://ar.al/2019/08/26/introducing-small-technology-foundation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2019/08/26/introducing-s</span><span class="invisible">mall-technology-foundation/</span></a><br>³ Using our instance of Look Over There!: <a href="https://look-over-there.small-web.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">look-over-there.small-web.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiteJS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiteJS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention 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