Two related polish passes on forms the operator hits most. App create form: the slug field used to come before the name field and demanded the operator hand-roll a valid slug. Now the name field comes first and the slug is derived from it live, GitLab-style — Unicode NFKD-decomposed, combining marks stripped (so `Café` → `cafe`), `ß` mapped to `ss`, non-`[a-z0-9]` runs collapsed to `-`, trimmed and capped at the backend's 63-char limit. The auto-sync releases as soon as the operator edits the slug manually, and re-engages if they clear it. The slug input itself runs every keystroke and paste through the same normalizer, so dirty input never reaches the form state. Route create form: the three-way host-kind `<select>` plus a sometimes- disabled input was confusing — operators routinely picked the wrong kind, typed a host the app didn't claim, and only saw the error after hitting Create. Replace with a single text input that infers the kind from what's there (`*` → any, `*.foo.com` → wildcard, `foo.com` → strict), shows the detected kind as a colored chip beside the field, and suggests the app's existing domain claims via a `<datalist>`. The same matching logic the backend runs in `validate_route_host_against_app` now lives in `route-utils.ts` so the form can surface a soft "not covered by any claim" warning *before* submit. Path also pre-fills to `/` so the most common case is one click away. Lockfile drift from `npm install` (pre-existing 0.5.0 → 0.5.1 version sync, npm metadata cleanup) is folded in here since it surfaced during this work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PiCloud
A lightweight, self-hosted, event-driven serverless compute platform. Upload a Rhai script, get an HTTP endpoint. Designed to run on a single modest server with no idle CPU cost, and to scale out to a small cluster when you need it.
Status: Phase 1 — MVP scaffolding in progress.
The authoritative design lives in
serverless_cloud_blueprint.md.
Why
Existing serverless platforms are either cloud-locked, heavyweight, or both. PiCloud aims for the opposite end of the spectrum: one binary, one database, one reverse proxy — running on hardware you already own.
Architecture (one paragraph)
PiCloud splits into three logical services — manager (control plane: scripts, schedules, dashboard), orchestrator (per-node event ingress and dispatch), and executor (per-node Rhai sandbox) — each backed by a *-core Rust library. In MVP they run in a single process; in cluster mode they run as three binaries with one manager and one orchestrator + executor per node. Caddy fronts everything; PostgreSQL is the single source of truth.
See CLAUDE.md for working notes and serverless_cloud_blueprint.md for the full design.
Quick Start
Coming as scaffolding lands. For now:
# Rust toolchain (pinned via rust-toolchain.toml)
cargo check --workspace
# Run the all-in-one MVP binary (once main.rs is wired up)
cargo run -p picloud
Repository Layout
crates/
shared/ cross-cutting types
executor-core/ Rhai engine + sandbox
orchestrator-core/ event ingress, dispatch
manager-core/ control plane
picloud/ MVP all-in-one binary
picloud-{manager,orchestrator,executor}/ cluster-mode binaries (skeleton)
dashboard/ SvelteKit
caddy/ Caddyfile
docker/ Dockerfiles
docs/
git-workflow.md Trunk-based workflow
Contributing
See docs/git-workflow.md for the branching and commit conventions. TL;DR: trunk-based, short-lived branches, Conventional Commits, no force-pushing main.
License
TBD.