remotestorage.js

Cross posting my comment from the other thread about local first https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40786425 My comment may fit a bit better here as this post talks about a protocol instead. --- https://remotestorage.io/ was a protocol intended for this. IIRC the visison was that all applications could implement this and you could provide that application with your remotestorage URL, which you could self host. I looked into this some time ago as I was fed up with WebDAV being the only viable open protocol for file shares/synchronization (especially after hosting my own NextCloud instance, which OOMed because the XML blobs for a large folder it wanted to create as a response used too much memory) and found it through this gist [0] which was a statement about Flock [1] shutting down. It looks like a cool and not that complex protocol, but

https://remotestorage.io/ was a protocol intended for this. IIRC the visison was that all applications could implement this and you could provide that application with your remotestorage URL, which you could self host. I looked into this some time ago as I was fed up with WebDAV being the only viable open protocol for file shares/synchronization (especially after hosting my own NextCloud instance, which OOMed because the XML blobs for a large folder it wanted to create as a response used too much memory) and found it through this gist [0] which was a statement about Flock [1] shutting down. It looks like a cool and not that complex protocol, but all the implementations seem to be unmaintained. And the official javascript client [2] seems to be ironically be used mostly to access Google Drive or DropBox Remotestorage also has an internet d

Spendee + Keep & always backing them up half-yearly. I would love to create something with markdown & https://github.com/remotestorage/remotestorage.js for storing user data.

Here's some projects you should check out: * RemoteStorage.js[1] (they plan on adding support for Dropbox, Drive, etc.) * CloudRail[2] (nonfree source) * CloudDock[3] (proxy service) * byoFS.js[4] (encrypted cloud storage, I maintain this) [1]: https://github.com/remotestorage/remotestorage.js [2]: http://cloudrail.com/ [3]: http://clouddock.co/ [4]: https://github.com/diafygi/byoFS

Looks neat! This sounds very similar to the concept of unhosted.org[1], where the user provides their own data storage location. Being based in Europe, have you had any interaction with the unhosted team or their remoteStorage.js[2] library? It seems like they are trying to integrate in Dropbox/GoogleDrive into that library, too. Also, you mention encryption in the Example Applications section. I've been working on a similar concept of having a client-side javascript library that creates an encrypted filesystem on Dropbox/Google Drive, called Bring Your Own Filesystem[3]. The most interesting thing with the system is that these storage locations allow for public files, which means you can set up end-to-end encrypted communication between two Dropbox accounts[4]. I'd love to learn more about your implementation of the encryption layer and