A server for Brooklyn Tech's app hub!

This is supposed to be run in addition to the app: https://github.com/ZarmDev/BTHSHub-App

Copyright (c) 2025 ZarmDev. All rights reserved.

All linux distributions

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git cd vcpkg ./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh --disableMetrics nano ~./bashrc 

add this to ~./bashrc

export VCPKG_ROOT=[your-vcpkg-root] 

then run

source ~/.bashrc 

IF THIS DOES NOT WORK THEN EDIT CMakePresets.json and add your root rather than it having $env{VCPKG_ROOT}

Debian based

sudo apt update sudo apt install -y ninja-build build-essential 

Debian based

sudo apt install redis-server 

Arch

sudo pacman -S redis 

All linux distributions You may have to enable it as system service (personally, I didn't have to)

sudo systemctl enable redis-server sudo systemctl start redis-server 

git clone https://github.com/sewenew/redis-plus-plus.git cd redis-plus-plus mkdir build && cd build cmake .. make sudo make install 

Debian based

sudo apt install -y libsodium-dev 

Arch

sudo pacman -S libsodium 

1. Ensure you have Cmake extension in Vscode or run cmake in the CLI
2. Run openssl rand -hex 32 in order to get a private key. Set it to JWT_SECRET in .env
3. Add an admin password
4. Either set PRODUCTION to TRUE or FALSE depending on if you are debugging or trying to run the server in production

JWT_SECRET=xxx ADMINPASS=xxx PRODUCTION=FALSE 

4. Add the path to your vcpkg root to CMakePresets.json at "CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE". There is already a value there so just replace it.

1. Run the redis server

redis-server & 

2. Use the run button at the bottom in vscode or use the Cmake CLI commands below:

cmake -B build -S . -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=[put-your-vcpkg-root]/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake 

and then

cmake --build ./build 

heroku create bthshub-server heroku config:set JWT_SECRET=$(openssl rand -hex 32) heroku config:set ADMINPASS=your_secure_admin_password 

For more ideas, see ideas.md

✅ The website will be made in C++ to be extremely fast and reliable ✅ User authentication with JWT Tokens ✅ Add team creation ✅ Private or public teams ✅ Add yourself or others to teams (if you own the team or are admin) ✅ Add ability to post annoucements ✅ Add way to get all annoucements ✅ Add admins and moderator permissions/roles ✅ Admin panel ✅ Add error handling, meaning the server will always run unless a severe error occurs ❌ Add rate limiting

❌ Implement club credit system and club directory ❌ Store BTHS daily announcements and send in a nice format to phones ❌ Add rate limiting ❌ Add friend functionality ❌ Storing schedules and being able to get other user's schedule (if they are friends) ❌ Ability to delete your own account ❌ Delete and edit annoucements ❌ More team actions like deletion or removing users from teams

Likely means you forgot to return a string in your route

Example:

string updateOtherUserAdminLevel(HttpRequest &req) { grantAdminLevel(parsed[0], parsed[1]); // Should have returned sendString or something like: // return sendString("200 OK", "Changed permission successfully!"); } server.post("/api/test", updateOtherUserAdminLevel); 

⚠️In userdatabase, teamdatabase, you can easily screw up some parts of the server by inputting backslashes. I will look into a efficient way to parse data from req.data without compromising for security

For security and performance, you can write a script that replaces all the routes in server.cpp to be replaced with one letter.

Make sure to log everything! Remove the system("clear") line

Try to rotate JWT_SECRET every x days using a cronjob.