theforum

A simple forum written in JavaScript, with no browser-side JS required

Why another forum?

This one's a bit special. It's entirely written using node.js, requires no JS in the browser, and therefore supports browsers with noscript. It's also very easy to set up, so anyone can make a simple platform for friends etc.

All pages are server-side-rendered, similarly to how PHP works, just that this is JavaScript instead.

The goal

• Simple
• <500sloc
• Entries sorted by newest
• Very large amount of sub-threads supported (current limiting factor is stack overflow errors, this will be fixed.)
• Easy setup
• Anonymous
• No JS on browser-side required
• Usable on Text-Based browsers like lynx

Setup

git clone https://github.com/tudbut/theforum
cd theforum
npm install

Running

node index.js <port>