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I specifically didn't want to use any libraries as I'm trying hard to avoid bloat, and I kind of enjoy reverse-engineering the CardDav (and next CalDav) clients, while reading the RFCs.
It's likely this will have bugs for the weirdest things, and where I'd appreciate help as long as it's not making things too slow/heavy. It's currently very naive and simple and using https://deno.land/x/[email protected] for some minor parsing in some of the requests; I drew the line to stop supporting fields and actions as soon as it worked perfectly for me and my wife (Linux and Android + macOS and iOS).
That being said, here's the function to build a vCard: https://github.com/bewcloud/bewcloud/blob/b81710a720d7d6afc2...
And the function to parse a vCard: https://github.com/bewcloud/bewcloud/blob/b81710a720d7d6afc2...
I went down a somewhat similar path a while back. I liked some of the functionality OwnCloud/NextCloud offered, but it seemed like there were just more and more php projects bolted on and I was worried about it from a security perspective. Sandstorm.io had just come out at the time and it felt like the "right" way to run a bunch of separate apps, so I built a webdav server/UI[0] as a sandstorm app that could replace OwnCloud and still use the OwnCloud client apps. It was a bit of a mixed bag--it worked, but I quickly discovered that DAV has _tons_ of quirks and the OwnCloud clients had all sorts of interesting/semidocumented behavior. If I had had more time on my hands I would have probably built my own set of clients and had an easier time.
[0] https://github.com/mnutt/davros