SHOULDERS.md

Shoulders

Beacon stands on the shoulders of giants. Thank you to the following open source projects that make this possible:

Core dependencies

• meshcore-go — MeshCore packet decoding
• paho.mqtt.golang — MQTT client
• pgx — PostgreSQL driver and connection pool
• sqlc — Type-safe SQL code generation
• chi — HTTP router
• go-chi/cors — CORS middleware for chi
• go-redis — Redis client
• coder/websocket — WebSocket implementation
• swaggo/swag — OpenAPI documentation generation
• godotenv — .env file loading
• yaml.v3 — YAML config parsing
• google/uuid — UUID generation

Data

• OurAirports — IATA airport geographic data (CC0 public domain)

Infrastructure

• PostgreSQL — Primary data store
• Redis — Optional caching layer
• Caddy — Reverse proxy

Language

• Go — The language that makes this all possible