Horuph Studio

This guide applies to Horuph Studio v1.0.0.

What Is Horuph Studio

Horuph Studio is a modular platform for building products across web, internal tools, and small IoT-style deployments that can run a lightweight web server. The core stays minimal and stable, while almost everything else lives in addons.

The Core Philosophy

• Small core: keep core lean so it can run on limited environments and remain easy to maintain.
• Addons over edits: features are added by installing addons, not by modifying core.
• Drop-in modules: an addon is a self-contained folder you can place into Horuph and it works.
• No hard limits: anything that can be expanded is designed to be expandable (routing, permissions, tools, UI, services).

What The Core Actually Does

• Request lifecycle: routing, rendering, and consistent request context.
• Security baseline: session/auth foundations and shared guardrails.
• Shared utilities: logging, helpers, and common infrastructure used by addons.
• Extension hooks: a clean way for addons to plug into routing, URL mapping, toolbar, console, blocks, and more.

Addons: Where The Power Lives

Addons are first-class citizens. They can provide pages, console tools, background workers, blocks, endpoints, and their own internal architecture.

• Feature modules: Content, Forms, Mail Service, PWA, Analytics, Integrations, …
• Composable: you can combine addons to match any product shape.
• Independent dependencies: addons can use Composer packages without bloating core.
• Expandable routing & URL logic: addons can parse/build/redirect URLs through routing hooks.

Two Surfaces

• Content pages: visitor-facing pages (the actual site).
• Console pages: admin-facing pages for management, tools, logs, installs, etc.

Why It Feels Different

• You don’t “enter a CMS” to manage things — you keep working where you are, and the toolbar brings tools to you.
• Scale without rewriting: start tiny, then grow into a full platform by adding addons.
• Parallel development: teams can build independent addons without stepping on core.

Key Concepts

• Addons live under: core/addons/
• Console pages: views/console/
• Visitor layouts: views/layouts/
• Actions & endpoints: actions write, endpoints read (clean separation).
• Locale-aware URLs: routes are built from urlData + locale rules.

Where To Start

• Install Horuph Studio
• Developing Addons for Horuph Studio