Ribbon2 is concept of news message system for journalism and news agencies. It based on older Ribbon system but with complete new tech stack. System now built around micro-service architecture.

Current version: 3.0

List of units

• gateway - REST api facade for units and also holder or user/group data;
• directory-unit - unit for holding tree of directories and permission data;
• message-unit - unit for holding messages;
• exchanger-unit - unit for launcing IO modules;
• uix - basic UI written on HTMX;

Key features

• Docker support;
• Basic UI;
• High scability;
• Secure auth;
• Ability to create tree of directories for messages with transparent access control;
• Ability to post/edit/delete message in several directories;
• Import messages from: plain text files, mail, RSS and Telegram;
• Export messages to: plain text files and mail;
• Open API;

Planned features

• Async API for critical operations;

Tech stack

System based on Javalin (REST API provider), MessageBus 6.0, Ebean and HTMX.

Source code of Ribbon2 system distributed under terms of the GNU LGPLv3 license.