# Navy's webserver framework
A template repository for creating Node.js based webservers with sharding.  
Main repository: https://git.corgi.wtf/Navy.gif/webserver-framework

## Main components
**Controller:** `/src/controller/Controller.js`  
Master process, orchestrates the whole program. Takes care of starting up the shards and communication with them.  

**Shard.js:** `/src/controller/Shard.js`  
Manages the forked processes. Essentially a wrapper for ChildProcess.

**Server.js:** `/src/server/Server.js`  
Main component that runs on the forked processes. Expects a message with a `_start` property with the startup options to be sent.

## "Lesser" components
**Authenticator:** `/src/server/middleware/Authenticator.js`  
Takes care of sessions, authentication and authorisation, relies on an implementation of `AbstractUserDatabase.js`.  

**UserDatabase:** `/src/server/components/UserDatabase.js`  
Implementation of `AbstractUserDatabase.js`, takes care of user management.