TheWall great to hear someone wants to tackle this ! If your friend is willing to report his progress or thoughts here, please invite him to open a discussion about his work in progress in the dev tag 😃
What is the reasoning behind tor+nojs though ? As far as I know, javascript is enabled by default in the tor browser. Even on browsers disabled by default, I believe that if you trust a website to handle your information and messages, you can trust it enough to enable javascript (at least for js served on the same domain) ? Because of this I don't see the rationale for a nojs-writable modern forum platform, but will happily help you achieve it if you need it 😁