REDSHIFTNET

Common Lisp Web Application Framework for enterprise data-driven apps that require hardened security, high performance, and web-facing admin access.

REDSHIFTNET was designed to replace large-scale web frameworks such as Django, Joomla, Drupal, Ruby-on-Rails, ASP.NET, and even blogging platforms such as WordPress, keeping shared-hosts such as WebFaction in mind.

REDSHIFTNET is built on top of the Hunchentoot web server, so your REDSHIFTNET app will compile and run as a standalone executable without needing to configure Apache, nginx, or other HTTP/S web server.

Documentation is available at: http://thephoeron.viewdocs.io/REDSHIFTNET

Features

One-line app creation, automatically added to quicklisp
Compile web-apps as binaries and run as daemons, with built-in swank server
jQuery, Bootstrap 3.0.0 and D3 included for rapid cross-platform data-driven interface development
VHOST support for HTTP and HTTPS, to deploy web-apps across multiple top-level and sub- domains
Improved session handling over Hunchentoot, with database-tracked session info
Secured pages with user authentication, session validation, and forced re-login on session expiry
Separate Admin and End-user front ends
Full PostgreSQL integration, with database introspection and automatic table views
Ironclad and ISAAC-64 powered PBKDF2-SHA512 password hashing
ISAAC-64 powered cryptographic random session token generation
Form-generation with integrated validation (based on Formlets)
Three-tiered notification system for alerting users through inline messages, ajax popups, and email
Easy integration of shell commands to leverage the full power of linux in your web-apps
JSON and XML serialization of data
Ready-to-use live-updating graphs and widgets

Upcoming Features

UI widget library powered by Bootstrap, jQuery UI, and D3
Blog module with WYSIWYG editor and Markdown support
Template-based document generation in multiple export formats
Calendars and scheduling tools
AJAX jGrowl notifications for system messages
Automatically generated edit forms for database table views
Front-end source code editing and server management
Userspaces separated into realms, in addition to groups

Installation and Use

Clone this project into ~/quicklisp/local-projects/

From the SBCL REPL:

* (ql:quickload "redshiftnet")

* (rsn-op:make-app 'my-new-app "~/quicklisp/local-projects/")

Your new REDSHIFTNET project will then be available under ~/quicklisp/local-projects/my-new-app/ ready to be loaded with ASDF or Quicklisp.

For best performance, use the make.lisp script in the project directory to compile your completed web-app on the deployment server:

$ CC=gcc sbcl --script make.lisp

You can then run your app simply by calling (for example):

$ ./my-new-app --swank-port=33798 --www-port=8080 --ssl-port=8090

Alternatively, you can install the binary to a directory on your path:

$ install -t ~/bin ./my-new-app

Your web-app runs as a background process, all output being logged in the files specified in your app's config.lisp file. Add it to your crontab so that if the process or server crashes or is restarted, it will be restarted automatically.

Dependencies

Note (11/25/2013): CSS-Lite in process of being replaced by CL-CSS, for better CSS3 support.

REDSHIFTNET should theoretically run anywhere SBCL runs, but has only been tested on Linux and OS X.

Linux x86_64 or OS X Server
SBCL 1.1.7+
PostgreSQL 9.1+
Quicklisp
Pandoc

Lisp libraries available through Quicklisp:

Hunchentoot
CL-WHO
CL-CSS
Parenscript
Postmodern
Submarine
Local-Time
CL-PPCRE
Split-Sequence
YASON
BABEL
Ironclad
CL-SMTP
SB-DAEMON
SWANK
CLON: The Command-Line Options Nuker
CL-FAD
CL-ISAAC
LET-OVER-LAMBDA

Other Dependencies (clone into ~/quicklisp/local-projects):

UBER-SHELL

Additional Configuration

Some of the included submodule repos require additional configuration, dependencies, installation, or compilation. See the original repos for instructions.

These include:

jQuery FullCalendar
jQuery DataTables
jGrowl

You can find them under new-app-templates/static/js/plugins/.

Support This Project

You can support this project by donating Bitcoin or Litecoin:

BTC: 1DH5o7tV7chyG1Dd97kRq5Mie2Z3fXUBnv

LTC: LVRouDabYFp7N4gT7KMeA9MTWzC2coexhQ

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to REDSHIFTNET, you can either create a pull request or join the collaborative development on Cloud9 IDE.

License

REDSHIFTNET is released under the MIT License (attribution required). Please see the file LICENSE in the toplevel directory for more information.

thephoeron / REDSHIFTNET