Microwave89/fibre

Overview

The goal of Fibre is to provide a framework to make suckless distributed applications easier to program.

In particular:

Nobody likes boiler plate code. Using a remote object should feel almost exactly as if it was local. No matter if it's in a different process, on a USB device, connected via Bluetooth, over the Internet or all at the same time. All complexity arising from the system being distributed should be taken care of by Fibre while still allowing the application developer to easily fine-tune things.
Fibre has the ambition to run on most major platforms and provide bindings for the most popular languages. Even bare metal embedded systems with very limited resources. See the Compatibility section for the current status.
Once you deployed your application and want to change the interface, don't worry about breaking other applications. With Fibre's object model, the most common updates like adding methods, properties or arguments won't break anything. Sometimes you can get away with removing methods if they weren't used by other programs.

Architecture

Note that this is not yet representative for the existing code.


 /--------------\  /--------------\   /---------------------------\
 | Light Toggle |  | Driver for   |   | LED strip -> simple light |
 | Applet       |  | Built-in LED |   | adaptor                   |
 \--------------/  \--------------/   \---------------------------/
       |                  |                     |
 /-------------------------------------------------------\
 |                   Local Fibre Hub                     |
 \-------------------------------------------------------/
       |                |
 /-----------\    /-----------\
 | USB relay |    | UDP relay |
 \-----------/    \-----------/
       |                |
 /---------------\      |
 | fibre-enabled |   /-----------\
 | desk lamp     |   | UDP relay |
 \---------------/   \-----------/
                        |
                 /------------------\
                 | remote fibre hub |
                 \------------------/
                        |
                 /------------------\
                 | LED strip driver |
                 \------------------/

Compatibility

	Linux
UDP	yes
raw TCP	yes
WebSocks
HTTP
Bluetooth LE
USB
Serial
CAN
SPI
I2C

Projects based on Fibre

lightd Service that can be run on a Raspberry Pi (or similar) to control RGB LED strips

Roadmap

Add compatibility with Windows, macOS, iOS, Android
Add bindings for JavaScript, C#
CI to test all items on the feature matrix

Contribute

This project losely adheres to the Google C++ Style Guide.

Microwave89 / fibre