StoredIn

A minimal and barebone pastebin like application developed in NodeJS. Initial plan is to keep it as simple and efficient as possible, barebone, no fancy UI have been planned yet. It is very easy to create a frontend for this application as the standard is set by the backend. Depending on the time I have, I'll think about developing a frontend.

Launch your own instance

Running your own instance of StoredIn is quite easy, for development or for deployment purposes as it uses NodeJS.

Prerequisites

The software(s) needed to run StoredIn are nodejs and npm. They provide all the tools necessary to launch your own instance.

• Refer to the official NodeJS download page to learn how to install nodejs and npm in your system.
• Change the directory to where the project files are located.
• Install all the necessary packages in package.json using npm install in the root of the project directory (through terminal).
• Check the config.js file located at the root of the project directory and make changes as needed.
• Launch the server using npm start or node app.js and the server should be available at the port specified in the config.js file.

Usage

Using this for storage is very easy using curl but anyone could easily write a tiny python script to create pastes. This application was written with the sole purpose of working with terminals.

1. curl --data "data=$(cat somefile.ext)" https://paste.prashant.me
2. cat somefile.ext | curl --data-urlencode data@- https://paste.prashant.me

In addition, if you can create alias in Linux machines, you can create an alias as such.

echo 'alias sim="curl --data-urlencode data@- https://paste.prashant.me"' >> ~/.bash_aliases

You might have to source ~/.bash_aliases in your config file, depending on which shell you use -

1. If you use zsh, echo 'source ~/.bash_aliases' >> ~/.zshrc
2. If you use plain bash, it might already be in there or do the same. echo 'source ~/.bash_aliases' >> ~/.bashrc

Once you have the alias set in your config, you can create a paste simply with cat somefile.ext | sim.