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Top 22 flat-file Open-Source Projects
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Grav
Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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FileHelpers
The FileHelpers are a free and easy to use .NET library to read/write data from fixed length or delimited records in files, strings or streams
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novagallery
novaGallery - a beautiful and and ease to use php image gallery for your photos - flat file - no database required - modern responsive design
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BoidCMS
BoidCMS is a free and open-source flat file CMS for building simple websites and blogs in seconds, developed using PHP and uses JSON as a database.
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Proxy yxorP
About Web 🦄 Proxy (GUI) : The SAAS(y), Multi-tenancy, Headless, Plug & Play, Web Proxy, Guzzler - Back-end included, PHP CURL+Composer are Optional. Leveraging SAAS architecture to provide multi-tenancy, multiple threads, caching, and an article spinner service.
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sleekwaredb
SleekwareDB is a NoSQL database storage service. A database storage service that can be used for various platforms and is easy to integrate.
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Podje.li
Podjeli is file sharing on your terms, encode your file into URLs. SPA written in JavaScript with JQuery.
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Project mention: Ask HN: What products other than Obsidian share the file over app philosophy? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-03There are flat-file CMSes (content management systems) like Grav: https://getgrav.org/
I guess, in some vague/broad sense, config-as-code systems also implement something similar? Maybe even OpenAPI schemas could count to some degree...?
In the old days, the "semantic web" movement was an attempt to make more webpages both human- and machine-readable indefinitely by tagging them with proper schema: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework. Even Google was on board for a while, but I guess it never saw much uptake. As far as I can tell it's basically dead now, both because of non-semantic HTML (everything as a React div), general laziness, and LLMs being able to parse things loosely.
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Side thoughts...
Philosophically, I don't know that capturing raw data alone as files is really sufficient to capture the nuances of any particular experience, or the overall zeitgeist of an era. You can archive Geocities pages, but that doesn't really capture the novelty and indie-ness of that era. Similarly, you can save TikTok videos, but absent the cultural environment that created them (and a faithful recreation of the recommendation algorithm), they wouldn't really show future archaeologists how teenagers today lived.
I worked for a natural history museum for a while, and while we were there, one of the interesting questions (well, to me anyway) was whether our web content was in and of itself worth preserving as a cultural artifact -- both so that future generations can see what exhibits were interesting/apropos for the cultures of our times, but also so they could see how our generation found out about those exhibitions to begin with (who knows what the Web will morph into 50 years later). It wasn't enough to simply save the HTML of our web pages, both because they tie into various other APIs and databases (like zoological collections) and because some were interactive experiences, like games designed to be played with a mouse (before phones were popular), or phone chatbots with some of our specimens. To really capture the experience authentically would've required emulating not just our tech stacks and devices, among other things.
Like for the earlier Geocities example, sure you could just save the old HTML and render it with a modern browser, but that's not the same as something like https://oldweb.today/?browser=ns3-mac#http://geocities.com/ , which emulates the whole OS and browser too. And that still isn't the same as having to sit in front of a tiny CRT and wait minutes for everything to download over a 14.4k modem, only to be interrupted when mom had to make a call.
I guess that's a longwinded of critiquing "file over app": It only makes sense for things that are originally files/documents to begin with. Much of our lives now are not flat docs but "experiences" that take much more thought and effort to archive. If the goal is truly to preserve that posterity, it's not enough to just archive their raw data, but to develop ways to record and later emulate entire experiences, both technological and cultural. It ain't easy!
I'm cooking up a really cheap publishing solution using Pico CMS ("stupidly simple") and rsync or something from my Obsidian Vault to my PHP server.
Project mention: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-21Not sure if this is what you’re after but give https://getkirby.com/ a try
Project mention: HTMLy, simple and fast databaseless PHP blogging platform | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-28
Just to show off my progress with building ChatX - free PHP and JavaScript shout room widget that can be appended to any website. Though it is stupidly simple, it has the main features of a regular chat app, and can on almost every hosting that supports PHP. The code is open source and published on GitHub: https://github.com/C3La-NS/ChatX
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The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source flat-file projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | Grav | 14,291 |
| 2 | Pico | 3,791 |
| 3 | Bludit | 1,230 |
| 4 | Kirby | 1,196 |
| 5 | FileHelpers | 1,120 |
| 6 | htmly | 990 |
| 7 | SleekDB | 873 |
| 8 | WonderCMS | 636 |
| 9 | panini | 590 |
| 10 | automad | 587 |
| 11 | Flextype | 564 |
| 12 | memex | 501 |
| 13 | JsonFlatFileDataStore | 415 |
| 14 | WikiDocs | 158 |
| 15 | novagallery | 67 |
| 16 | nicholas | 64 |
| 17 | flatbread | 55 |
| 18 | BoidCMS | 40 |
| 19 | Proxy yxorP | 26 |
| 20 | sleekwaredb | 18 |
| 21 | Podje.li | 17 |
| 22 | ChatX | 12 |
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