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Design Goals

Constraints

• Minimal overhead to page load times
• Must not conflict with namespaces
• Must cooperate with each site's CSS
• No local storage or cookies

Authorization

• Lazy signup, no password
• Anonymous; only a valid e-mail
• Rate limit e-mail (per minute and per hour) to avoid abuse

Requirements

Runtime: ruby postgresql-server Test: ephemeralpg chromium node

Installation

bundle install
npm install

Database Initialization

Reset everything

dropdb sidecomment

Initialize database

psql -f schema/roles.sql
psql -c 'CREATE DATABASE sidecomment OWNER sidecomment;'
psql -c 'ALTER USER sidecomment SUPERUSER;'
for f in schema/??-*.sql; do
    psql -q -U sidecomment -f $f
done
psql -c 'ALTER USER sidecomment NOSUPERUSER;'

Optionally load test data

psql -U sidecomment -f server_tests/data.sql

History

See TIMELINE.md for the history of this project.

Source code for sidecomment.io is licensed under an ISC-style license. Copyright 2021 Eric Radman / Ratical Software.