T5DE's hub: accounts linked to IMVU accounts, presence, and (to come) the registry of community products and catalogs, T5DE-hosted rooms, and the moderation console. Part of T5DE (git.t5de.dev/t5de). Design: docs/design.md; the API: docs/api.md; what a room needs from a server: docs/imq-rooms.md.

What works

Accounts (Better Auth): sign-up with email, username and password; sign-in by username. The first account is an admin; roles user, moderator, admin. Registration open or closed (new accounts wait for a moderator's approval): an admin's setting in the console, defaulting to the API's REGISTRATION.
Linking IMVU accounts: the person puts a code in the account's tagline; the hub reads it from IMVU's public API. The most recent proof wins (an account linked elsewhere moves, with a new pairwise ID). Link caps per person (default 10).
Age: an IMVU account counts as adult if IMVU says it's age verified or has Access Pass, checked by the hub, or if its person verified their age with an ID document and a selfie (Didit, when configured: AGE_PROVIDERS, see apps/api/src/index.ts and docs/design.md, "Age").
Proxy sign-in: OAuth 2.0 device authorization (t5de-proxy signin shows a code to enter at /device); the proxy then uses its session as a bearer token. JWTs with published keys (/.well-known/jwks.json) for catalogs.
Presence: signed-in proxies keep a WebSocket (/api/v1/realtime) telling the hub which IMVU account is in use and the community products it wears. /online shows those who opted in, live, with the opt-in T5DE badge.
Products (website): browsing and search, product pages, uploads straight from the browser to a catalog, editing, revisions (retract, stay on one), the library, and registering catalogs (docs/products.md). Pages send a strict Content Security Policy (apps/web/proxy.ts).
Console (moderators): counts, who's online (live), people, link caps, bans, roles, the audit log.

Layout

A Bun monorepo (workspaces, Turborepo):


`apps/api`	The API: Elysia on Bun, Better Auth, the realtime WebSocket. Port 4101.
`apps/web`	The website: Next.js 16 (React server components), Tailwind CSS 4, shadcn/ui. Port 4100. Calls the API through its own `/api` (rewrites), typed end to end with Eden.
`packages/db`	Drizzle schema and migrations; Postgres in production, PGlite (in-process Postgres) for development and tests.

Development

Needs Bun (1.4) and Node (for Next.js).

bun install
bun run dev          # the API on :4101 (database in apps/api/data) and the website on :4100

bun run test tests the API against PGlite; bun run check-types, bun run build.

Running it

Self-hosted: AUTH_SECRET=$(openssl rand -base64 32) docker compose up -d runs Postgres, the API and the website (see docker-compose.yml for the public addresses).
Elsewhere: the website deploys as is to Vercel and similar (apps/web, env API_URL); the API to any host that runs Bun or containers (Railway, Render, Fly.io, Heroku), with DATABASE_URL, AUTH_SECRET, API_URL (its public address) and WEB_URL (the website's).

A staging site shows a slim "Staging" bar: when it's served from a staging. address (hub.staging.t5de.dev), or with the website's HUB_ENVIRONMENT=staging (production hides it).

T5DE's proxies reach the API's address directly (sign-in and the WebSocket): t5de-proxy signin -hub <API address>.