From 0e2c5f9e4980ed259bfc36044c50eb9fedfc27b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "me@ow.nekobit.net" <me@ow.nekobit.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 05:39:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Initial

FossilOrigin-Name: 3f0b9969cca554540ca465095193b9d00d3c132627771b3cbdbf3d22464483e6
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 Makefile  | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 README.md | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Makefile
 create mode 100644 README.md

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..89c8d74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+CC ?= cc
+CFLAGS = -Wall
+LDFLAGS = -lcurl
+SRC = $(wildcard src/*.c)
+OBJ = $(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(SRC))
+TARGET = ratfe
+
+all: $(TARGET)
+
+$(TARGET): $(OBJ)
+	$(CC) -o $(TARGET) $(LDFLAGS)
+
+$(OBJ): $(SRC)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
+
+.PHONY: all
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bf4548f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# RatFE
+
+A pleroma frontend for rats.
+
+The goal is to create a frontend that's lightweight enough to be viewed without JS, but
+usable enough to improve the experience with JS.
+
+RatFE uses C with FCGI, mastodont-c (another library that complements RatFE) for
+communication, and plain JavaScript. It also uses sqlite3 to store any user-specific
+information and groups.
+
+## Isn't FCGI outdated?
+
+No.
+
+## Isn't Sqlite3 slow?
+
+No, in fact, it may likely be faster than if it were using postgresql. The pleroma server
+communicates using postgresql because there are lots of incoming requests and outgoing
+requests on the server, and there can be multiple requests at once occuring, which get
+queued. We don't need that kind of speed and we shouldn't interfere with it anyway.
+
+Plus, Sqlite3 is only being used for user groups and possibly some session information.
+
+## Rat?
+
+Rats are c00l.