Jeremy Meyer 17bba2d040 feat: initial monorepo setup with Next.js landing page

- pnpm workspaces monorepo with apps/ and packages/
- Next.js 16 landing page (apps/web) with dark theme, feature overview
- Package stubs: @webproxy/core, @webproxy/indexer, @webproxy/shared
- Proxy server placeholder (apps/proxy)
- Project spec, architecture docs, and deployment guide
- Gitea remote configured at 185.191.239.154:3000

Co-Authored-By: UnicornDev <noreply@unicorndev.wtf>

2026-02-26 18:24:28 -08:00

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WebProxy Architecture

Overview

WebProxy is a self-hosted web indexing proxy that crawls, caches, and serves internet content to devices on your local network.

Recommended Tech Stack

Based on research into cutting-edge open source tools, the following stack is recommended for a TypeScript/Node.js monorepo:

Tier 1: Core (Native TypeScript)

Component	Tool	npm Package	Role
Crawler	Crawlee	`crawlee`, `@crawlee/playwright`	Crawl/index topics of interest
Forward Proxy	http-proxy-3	`http-proxy-3`	Transparent caching proxy for network devices
MITM Proxy	mockttp	`mockttp`	HTTPS interception, request/response capture
WARC Storage	warcio.js	`warcio`	Write/read WARC archives of cached content
Search	MeiliSearch	`meilisearch` (client)	Full-text search of indexed content
Dashboard	Next.js	`next`	Web dashboard for management

Tier 2: Utility Libraries

Component	Package	Role
Content extraction	`@mozilla/readability`	Extract article content from HTML
HTML to Markdown	`turndown`	Convert HTML to Markdown for AI/LLM use
DOM parsing	`cheerio`	Server-side HTML parsing
Caching layer	`keyv` or custom LRU	HTTP response caching with TTL

Tier 3: Optional Sidecars (Docker)

Component	Tool	Role
Replay engine	pywb	Serve archived WARC content Wayback-style
Deep archiving	ArchiveBox	Comprehensive page archiving

Why These Choices

Crawlee over Scrapy/Nutch/Crawl4AI

Native TypeScript - single language across the monorepo
Supports Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, and raw HTTP crawlers
Built-in request queue, proxy rotation, autoscaling
Actively maintained by Apify (monthly releases)

http-proxy-3 + mockttp over Squid/mitmproxy

Pure Node.js - no external binary management
http-proxy-3 is a modern rewrite fixing socket leaks, partial HTTP/2
mockttp provides full MITM capabilities natively in TypeScript

MeiliSearch over OpenSearch/YaCy/Solr

Rust binary - lightweight, runs on Raspberry Pi (~1GB RAM)
Official Node.js SDK with TypeScript types
Auto language detection, typo tolerance
Single binary deployment

warcio.js over warcprox

Native TypeScript (v2.0+) by the Webrecorder team
Streaming WARC read/write for both browser and Node.js
No Python dependency

Data Flow

Network Device                     Internet
     |                                |
     | HTTP(S) request                |
     v                                |
  [proxy]                             |
     |                                |
     |--> Cache hit? --> [storage] --> Serve from WARC
     |                                |
     |--> Cache miss? --------------> Fetch from Internet
     |         |                      |
     |         +--> [storage] ------> Write to WARC
     |         +--> [indexer] ------> Index in MeiliSearch
     |                                |
     v                                |
  Response to Device                  |
                                      |
  [crawler] (scheduled) ------------> Crawl topics
     |                                |
     +--> [storage] ----------------> Write to WARC
     +--> [indexer] ----------------> Index in MeiliSearch

Package Structure

packages/
  core/          # http-proxy-3 + mockttp based forward proxy
  indexer/       # Crawlee-based topic crawler + MeiliSearch indexing
  shared/        # Shared types, utilities, config schemas

apps/
  web/           # Next.js landing page & admin dashboard
  proxy/         # Main proxy server entry point

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