I’m building Meith: forum software with a modern stack

Description and use

Meith is a self‑hosted, open‑source forum platform built on TypeScript, Next.js, React, and PostgreSQL, featuring a clear separation of business logic and infrastructure that enables easy testing, extension, and long‑term community maintenance.

Problem

Community owners need a self‑hosted forum that remains maintainable over years, with clear separation of business logic, permissions, caching, and extensibility.

Outcome

Meith delivers a maintainable forum foundation with clear separation of concerns, robust permission and caching strategies, and extensibility through themes and plugins, all while remaining self‑hosted and free.

Workflow

• 1. User submits a request via a Next.js route or server action.
• 2. Input is validated and the request is authorized.
• 3. A domain service processes the business logic.
• 4. The service persists data through a repository implementation.
• 5. A public view model is prepared.
• 6. Affected caches are invalidated and the response is returned.

Evidence

Meith is an open‑source, self‑hosted forum platform I’m working on.

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The stack is TypeScript, Next.js, React and PostgreSQL, with Drizzle handling the database layer.

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Features such as accounts, threads, posts and moderation live in separate packages, with explicit boundaries between the forum’s business rules and the infrastructure running them.

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The request flow looks roughly like this: Route or server action → validate input and authorise the request → call a domain service → persist through a repository implementation → prepare the public view model → invalidate affected caches and respond

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PostgreSQL does a substantial amount of the infrastructure work. Alongside the content, it holds sessions, full‑text search data, queues and scheduled task state.

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