Raft Demo Documentation

Features Working

Core:

Security
- content is encrypted at rest and no available to the server when logged out.
- Secure authentication required (passkey or security key)
- No third party services or content
- Best practices for rails security
Full text search
- Search Events, Files, People, including encrypted fields and content.
Changes
- View recent changes on landing pages
- View all changes for a workspace or self
Sharing
- By default, workspace members’ have access, no one else does.
- Specific resource may be shared via time-limited unique URLs
- Centrally track all the shared URLs for a workspace.
- Shared URLs may grant view, comment, edit, or admin access
People
- allow users to have multiple profiles and choose which one is associated with each workspace.
- workspaces have members, contacts, admins.
- Admins may invite people to join a workspace via a join URL
Under the hood
- Attachments are encrypted and stored in S3-compatible object storage service.
- Background job processing for long tasks (encrypted in db)

Modules:

Files
- Files stored in a familiar folder tree
- Basic file operations: upload, download, rename, move, trash/untrash, purge.
- Batch or single file operations
- Collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, pdf via OnlyOffice Docs.
- File versioning
- Preview generation for images and office documents
- Nice uploads: upload progress bar, drag and drop, multi files and nested folders
- auto-refresh when a file or folder changes in another window or by another user.
- partial drag and drop to move files
Events
- One time events and recurring calendar events.
- View events by month, week, or day.

Separate login username from profile usernames
Check that workflow for admins, editors, viewers make sense.
Export folders to a zip file.
Actually useful events (attendance, better UI, delete/edit event in a series, etc)
Better profile controls (choose default profile, change profile for a workspace).

Implement a service worker to cache images in memory, since we set a very strict no-store cache header.
Enable view caching where appropriate
Add indexes to database where real world usage says they are needed
Reduce javascript and css file sizes by removing the parts of bootstrap we don’t use
ActionCable optimization:
- Replace ActionCable with AnyCable. https://github.com/anycable/anycable-rails
- Stand alone Cable server https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_cable_overview.html#running-standalone-cable-servers
- AnyCable offers a “whisper” feature for publishing transient broadcasts between clients, without touching your Rails backend. This is ideal for cursor position and Y.js. Add whisper: true to your Rails channels when using this Y-rb and AnyCable. https://docs.anycable.io/rails/extensions?id=whispering

infrastructure-as-code container-based deployment recipe
Multiple postgres database instances
Multiple web app instances
Multiple TLS termination instances
Multiple onlyoffice editor instances
(requires shard-key https://api.onlyoffice.com/docs/docs-api/get-started/configuration/shard-key/)
stand alone cable server https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_cable_overview.html#running-standalone-cable-servers

edit markdown with blocknote https://www.openproject.org/blog/real-time-collaboration-in-documents/
cut/copy/paste to move/copy files.
download folder to zip file
what happens when you upload a new version of a file with a different content type? i think it should not be allowed, but add a convert button?
efficient versions: merge versions when checksums have not changed and when close in time.
Enable converting between file formats using either libreoffice or onlyoffice
move/copy files between workspaces?
Do lazy purging via a background job.
Do lazy preview generate via a background job.
Do lazy archive download generation via a background job.
Generate previews using a remote service (both for security and performance)
Support resumable uploads.
https://github.com/stakach/Resumable-Uploads
https://javascript.info/resume-upload
Support better drag and drop file moving. Some possible drop targets are missing.
Support historical snapshotting of the entire directory tree structure (depends on deduplication).
Support deduplication (actually pretty easy).
Support storing diff blobs instead of full change for past versions https://github.com/halostatue/diff-lcs
Show diffs for text or markdown files: https://github.com/samg/diffy
Support editing raster images (non-collaboratively):
- https://github.com/nhn/tui.image-editor
- https://github.com/scaleflex/filerobot-image-editor

Forms

Chat

Simple real time chat, multiple channels for each workspace, including 1:1 chat.

CMS

Tasks

Notes

A notes section, separate from files, that is sort of a hierarchical wiki with
a collaborative markdown editor. Something like a lightweight Notion.

Polls/Discussion

A lightweight loomio-like discussion board with integrated group decision making tools.