[developer needed] GLIX: Custom domain manager for Glitch (WIP)

[ihack2712]

GLIX IS BACK

AND MORE POWERFUL THEN EVER

Glix is still work in progress and is scheduled to have a public beta release by sometime next week..

Until a public release is announced please do not change the topic category!

Features

• Sign up / in / out
• Domain verification (so nobody steals your domain).
• Point a domain (or sub-domain) to any glitch project.
• Remove your domain (or sub-domain) whenever you feel like it, no need to email anyone.
• A healthcheck entrypoint www.example.com/glix/healthcheck, to check whether or not Glix is powering your domain. (This WILL NOT ping your project).
• Add a pointer on-demand using our free API!

Beta Accounts

Hence the first release of Glix will be a public beta; there is no need to send an application; it will be open for everyone!

Progress

- Done

- Doing

- To Do

Progress (this is a long list!)

This list will be updated 1-3 times a day if progress has been made!

This list will automatically be sorted by it's status, doing will appear on top, done will appear on bottom, to do will appear in the middle.

#	Status	Task	Description
37		API Domains - Add	Adds a domain.
38		API Domains - Remove	Removes a domain.
19		API Google Recaptcha	Verify that the end-user is a person.
20		API Admin - User - Get	Get information about a user.
21		API Admin - User - Edit	Edit a user’s information, such as their password. NOTE: Passwords are hashed using Argon2id, therefore they cannot be seen by an administrator.
22		API Admin - User - Delete	Delete a user, with their domains and pointers.
23		API Admin - User - Promote	Promote a user to either an admin or a beta account.
24		API Admin - User - Delete API key	Deletes a user’s API key(s)
25		API Admin - Domains - Add	Forcefully add a domain to the database, linked to a user.
26		API Admin - Domains - Verify	Forcefully verify a domain.
27		API Admin - Domains - Delete	Delete a domain and the pointers that use the given domain.
28		API Admin - Pointers - Set	Set a pointer from any domain to any website (not just Glitch).
29		API Admin - Pointers - Unset	Unset any pointer.
30		API Admin - Send Mail	Send an email to any address.
34		API User - Change Password	Changes the current user’s password.
35		API User - Forgot Password	Sends a reset link to the user’s email (implements recaptcha).
36		API User - Delete	Destruct self (implements recaptcha and email verification).
40		API Pointers - Set	Set a pointer to a glitch project.
41		API Pointers - Unset	Unset a pointer.
42		Frontend WEBSITE	TODO: Write tasks.
1		Internal Caddy API	Interact with the reverse-proxy.
2		Internal User - Create	Create a new user.
3		Internal User - Fetch	Fetch a user from the database, whether if it is by email or id.
4		Internal User - Delete	Delete a user.
5		Internal User - Modify	Modify an existing user.
6		Internal User - Send Verification Mail	Send a verification mail.
7		Internal User - Check Password	Check if a raw password, when hashed, matches the one stored in the database.
8		Internal User - Send Mail	Send a user a mail.
9		Internal User - Create API key	Create an API key for a user.
10		Internal User - Delete API key	Deletes an API key belongig to a user.
11		Internal Mail	Send a mail.
12		Internal Domains - Lookup	Get the text records of a domain; this is used when verifying that a domain belongs to a user.
13		Internal Domains - Add	Add a domain to the database, linked to a user.
14		Internal Domains - Remove	Delete a domain completely from the database, and all subsequent hosts.
15		Internal Domains - Verify	Verify the domain to allow the domain to be used in the reverse-proxy.
16		Internal Domains - Remove Unverified	Remove unverified domains from a user after 48 hours of staying unverified, the user will not be able to add the domain again after a failed attempt to verify the domain. A user will have to contact support if they fail.
17		Internal Pointers - Set	Set a pointer to a glitch project.
18		Internal Pointers - Unset	Remove a pointer.
31		API User - Sign up	Create a new user (implements recaptcha).
32		API User - Verify	Very a user with a given code (sent via email)
33		API User - Sign in	Signs in a user and sets encrypted cookies token and refresh-token (implements recaptcha).
39		API Domains - Get Verification Text	Get the required verification text (which should be added as a TXT record on the domain.

[random]

i’m moving this to #the-gallery because this i’ll make a lot of people very happy!

[ihack2712]

@ihack2712

Until a public release is announced please do not change the topic category!

It’s not ready, it’s an upcoming project, which doesn’t belong in the gallery: A new topic for category and upcoming projects

[random]

okay, moved back to #uncategorized

[random]

'When you say it’ll be public beta, does that mean we can remix it? and if so what services would we need?

[EddiesTech]

Nope. No remixes required. Instead, you use @ihack2712’s ‘Glix’ website to manage your domains. Probably won’t be open source??? And probably not ran on Glitch

[ihack2712]

@EddiesTech is right! Glix is not hosted on Glitch due to Glitch’s technical limitations. The two main reasons it is not hosted on Glitch are:

1. Availability (1000 project hours, wake up time, etc.)
2. You can’t do a reverse-proxy from a glitch project to another glitch project that allows dynamic domain allocation.

Therefore, Glix is hosted on my VPS 24/7 with a 99.99% uptime guarantee. I have been thinking whether or not I want to open source Glix and to be honest, I’m not completely sure yet.

Open-sourcing Glix is indeed a good thing because then everyone can make their own mirrors or reverse-proxy, but on the other side it opens up the possibility for competition, and as a ‘business’ person it would not be a good idea.

[random]

Either way i can’t wait until the open beta release!

[ihack2712]

Me neither!  

[RiversideRocks]

I dont use glitch that much anymore but I’d still like to give this a shot.

[javaarchive]

I might use this when I set up a cluster of glitch and repl, servers to loadbalance an application.
This will involve some weird setup so I might need some middleware…

[ihack2712]

For anyone wondering how the progress is updated, it’s done by rendering EJS to HTML and manually edited:

[javaarchive]

we can use html

I forgot...



this makes me think of new ways to bypass the character limit

[ihack2712]

Status Update

I’m currently working on being able to send emails from Deno!

However the only library in Deno doesn’t support neither of my email services which are Zoho and MailGun, I’ll therefore be creating a gmail account which should work.

EDIT:

I’ve tested this using Google Mail and it works, mails will be sent thru glix.ihacks.dev@gmail.com.

[ihack2712]

Emails are now finally working!

[random]

YAY! When will it be released for beta?

[ihack2712]

Sometime next week, the design will look really ugly, my main focus is getting the internal tools and public APIs ready, when that is done the public beta release will be made. A better GUI will come later.

Also a reminder:

You can check my current progress

[ihack2712]

I decided to do a rewrite of all my progress due to messy code and making the code more OOP based. The public release might take 1-3 extra days!

[Anish]

Erm. Verification via gmail? When you have your own domain?

[ihack2712]

[developer needed] GLIX: Custom domain manager for Glitch (WIP)

Status Update I’m currently working on being able to send emails from Deno! However the only library in Deno doesn’t support neither of my email services which are Zoho and MailGun, I’ll therefore be creating a gmail account which should work. EDIT: I’ve tested this using Google Mail and it works, mails will be sent thru glix.ihacks.dev@gmail.com.