# Shoulders Beacon stands on the shoulders of giants. Thank you to the following open source projects that make this possible: ## Core dependencies - [meshcore-go](https://github.com/meshcore-go/meshcore-go) — MeshCore packet decoding - [paho.mqtt.golang](https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.golang) — MQTT client - [pgx](https://github.com/jackc/pgx) — PostgreSQL driver and connection pool - [sqlc](https://sqlc.dev) — Type-safe SQL code generation - [chi](https://github.com/go-chi/chi) — HTTP router - [go-chi/cors](https://github.com/go-chi/cors) — CORS middleware for chi - [go-redis](https://github.com/redis/go-redis) — Redis client - [coder/websocket](https://github.com/coder/websocket) — WebSocket implementation - [swaggo/swag](https://github.com/swaggo/swag) — OpenAPI documentation generation - [godotenv](https://github.com/joho/godotenv) — .env file loading - [yaml.v3](https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml) — YAML config parsing - [google/uuid](https://github.com/google/uuid) — UUID generation ## Data - [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) — IATA airport geographic data (CC0 public domain) ## Infrastructure - [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org) — Primary data store - [Redis](https://redis.io) — Optional caching layer - [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com) — Reverse proxy ## Language - [Go](https://go.dev) — The language that makes this all possible