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Technical Overview

A technical overview of the Server State ecosystem

Components Overview​

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Core Components​

These components are "fixed", i.e., they cannot easily be adjusted. We keep them as small as possible, moving as much functionality as possible into modular components.

The Core Components include:

  • the Server: The application that runs on your server. It's responsible for hosting necessary APIs as well as managing and running installed extensions
  • the Client: A software running on your personal computer which provides a UI for interacting with the Server State Server. The "core" client, however, only manages connecting to the server and installing/uninstalling modular components, and is therefore pretty useless without having modular components installed.

Modular Components​

Modular components, on the other hand, are optional, installable, and often interchangeable add-ons to the core components.

The modular components include:

  • Extensions: Installable modules running on the Server that can both extend the GraphQL-based API (e.g., for adding new parameters that you can monitor) and take over essential server-side tasks such as logging or notifying you about critical values.
  • Plugin (also: Widget): A plugin is, in some sense, to the Client what an Extension is to the Server. It extends the client with functionality. Usually, plugins add additional widgets for visualizing server parameters.