Tilde Friends

Tilde Friends is a tool for making and sharing.

A public instance lives at https://www.tildefriends.net/.

It is both a peer-to-peer social network client, participating in Secure Scuttlebutt, as well as a platform for writing and running web applications.

Goals

1. Make it easy and fun to run all sorts of web applications.
2. Provide security that is easy to understand and protects your data.
3. Make creating and sharing web applications accessible to anyone with a browser.

Building

Builds on Linux (x86_64 and aarch64), MacOS, OpenBSD, and Haiku. Builds for all of those host platforms plus mingw64, iOS, and android.

Tilde Friends uses git submodules, so either:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://dev.tildefriends.net/cory/tildefriends.git

or:

git clone https://dev.tildefriends.net/cory/tildefriends.git
cd tildefriends
git submodule update --init --recursive

The .tar.xz source releases are all-inclusive.

1. On Linux only, system OpenSSL libraries (libssl-dev, in debian-speak) is assumed to be available.
2. To build, run make debug or make release. An executable will be generated in a subdirectory of out/.
3. It's possible to build for Android, iOS, and Windows on Linux, if you have the right dependencies in the right places. make windebug winrelease iosdebug-ipa iosrelease-ipa release-apk.
4. To build in docker, docker build ..
5. make format will normalize formatting to the coding standard.

Running

By default, running the built tildefriends executable will start a web server at http://localhost:12345/. tildefriends -h lists further options.

The first user to create an account and log in will be granted administrative privileges. Further administration can be done at http://localhost:12345/~core/admin/.

Documentation

Docs are a work in progress: https://www.tildefriends.net/~cory/wiki/#test-wiki/tf-app-quick-reference.

License

All code unless otherwise noted in is provided under the MIT license.