Core is the foundational backend infrastructure powering all BARS services, providing comprehensive APIs for VATSIM authentication, real-time WebSocket connections for airport lighting state, airport data & point management, community contributions, division management, advanced staff operations, file storage, release management, content management, and system health monitoring.
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We encourage and appreciate contributions from the community! To get started, please review our CONTRIBUTING.md guide, which covers how to set up your development environment, code style guidelines and best practices, instructions for submitting pull requests, and testing and verification procedures.
Your contributions directly support the ongoing development and improvement of BARS. By getting involved, you help us build a more robust, and feature-rich product that benefits the entire flight sim community. All contributors are acknowledged on our credits page.
BARS is an independent third-party software project. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to VATSIM, vatSys, EuroScope, Microsoft Flight Simulator, or any other simulation, controller client supported by our software.
