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v7.0.0: Clean room rewrite — port .mjs to .js ES modules#2

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Summary

  • Complete clean room rewrite of node-solid-server from scratch
  • Port from .mjs to .js with "type": "module" in package.json
  • Dependencies cut from 59 to 8
  • Production code reduced from ~7,400 to ~1,200 lines (11 files)
  • 56 integration tests all passing

What's in

Feature Lines
LDP CRUD (GET/HEAD/PUT/POST/DELETE/PATCH) middleware.js (321) + ldp.js (208)
Web Access Control with inheritance acl.js (126)
N3 Patch + SPARQL UPDATE patch.js (217)
Content negotiation (Turtle/JSON-LD/N3/N-Triples) rdf.js (102)
URL ↔ filesystem mapping resource-mapper.js (64)
Express app + CORS + headers server.js (59)
CLI bin/solid.js (47)

What's removed

Built-in OIDC provider, account management UI, sessions, email service, mashlib data browser, multi-user/vhost, WebSockets, Docker, CORS proxy, auth proxy, storage quotas.

Test plan

  • 56 integration tests passing (LDP, headers, content negotiation, PATCH, ACL)
  • Manual smoke test with a Solid client
  • Review ACL inheritance edge cases

Closes #1

Complete rewrite of node-solid-server from scratch.

- Port from .mjs to .js with "type": "module" in package.json
- Dependencies cut from 59 to 8
- Production code reduced from ~7,400 to ~1,200 lines (11 files)
- 56 integration tests covering LDP, headers, content negotiation, PATCH, ACL
- Full Solid protocol compliance: LDP CRUD, WAC, content negotiation, PATCH

Removed: built-in OIDC provider, account management UI, sessions, email
service, mashlib data browser, multi-user/vhost, WebSockets, Docker,
CORS proxy, auth proxy, storage quotas.

Closes #1
@melvincarvalho melvincarvalho merged commit ab24751 into main Mar 19, 2026
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v7.0.0: Clean room rewrite — port .mjs to .js ES modules

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