A simple github alternative open source on github (ironic right ?), it aims is to be fully functionnal with some of the core features of github working.
See #84 for more info on the supported features.
Expect stuff to break.
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- Login/Logout
- HomePage (README content)
- Responsive Layout
- Settings page for toggling theme
- Stargazers Page
- See Profile informations
- Update username
- Change theme
- User detail page
- Issues List page
- Search & filter issues by author, label, assignee, closed/open, title, mentions, etc. (Inspiration: https://github.com/openstatusHQ/openstatus, https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/filtering-and-searching-issues-and-pull-requests)
- New issue page
- Issue CRUD (by the author only)
- Comments CRUD
- Mentions
- Issue Popovers (for previewing issues)
- Linking between issues
- Assign & self assign issues
- OpenGraph
- landing (inspiration: https://github.com/trpc/trpc/blob/main/www/og-image/pages/api/landing.tsx)
- Per repository
- Per user
- Per Issue (inspiration: https://opengraph.githubassets.com/101e5bdeef8e959c800fab2aef88eef0b01b15d883e3e17c990bde8dfd67d6b3/trpc/trpc/issues/4306)
- Labels CRUD (can only add or update labels, no deleting)
- Notifications page
- Notifications badge (Inspiration: https://gist.github.com/Fredkiss3/ab918aee3977d681f0508537a44838c0, https://github.com/Fredkiss3/bunrest)
- Notifications for issues subscriptions
- Notifications for mentions
- Notifications for issue statuses
- Filter notifications by status, title, closed, etc.
- Mark as done, unsubscribe
- files hosting for repos (with a storage limit)
- file browsing UI
- file searching
- Repository list
- list of repos
- search for repos
- Git web UI
- commit history
- time travel
- support
git push
andgit remote
commands
- issue kanban board (like github projects), to close an issue either with a commit or from the UI
- CI/CD
- running CI with docker, we can take inspiration from gitlab
- Next App Router
- drizzle local Postgres database
- Hosted to a custom VPS, see the CI/CD workflow for how it is all deployed
- tailwindCSS for the styling
- Node >= v18.x
- pnpm >= v8.x
- docker installed for local development
- A registered github app for authenticating users
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First you have to clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Fredkiss3/gh-next.git
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Start the docker compose instance to start the DB redis instance :
docker-compose up -d --remove-orphans
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Install the dependencies :
pnpm install
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Rename
.env.example
to.env.local
And change the file to your needs, -
And launch the project :
pnpm run dev
The app will show at http://localhost:3000.
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Open the source code and start rocking ! 😎
A quick look at the top-level files and directories you will see in this project.
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├── src/
│ ├── app
│ ├── actions
│ ├── components
│ ├── models
│ └── lib/
│ ├── client
│ ├── server
│ └── shared
├── biome.json
├── pnpm-lock.yaml
└── tsconfig.json
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src/app/
: this folder contains all the routes & pages of our app. -
src/actions
: this folder contains all the logic of our app. -
src/components
: this folder contains all the components of our app. -
src/models
: this folder contains all the DB models of our app. -
src/lib/
: this folder contains utils & helpers used throughout our app :-
client
: this folder contains all the utilities that are client-only, usually used by client components. It contains mainly hooks -
server
: this folder contains all the utilities that are server-only, for use within server components and server actions. It also contains the DB schemas insidedb/schema
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shared
: this folder contains all the utilities that are shared between the server & client, these can be used anywhere in the app.
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biome.json
: this file contains the configuration for biome to enable autoformatting. -
pnpm-lock.yaml
: this file contains the dependencies lock for the repo. -
tsconfig.json
: this file contains the configuration for typescript, that are used by the all the underlying packages
Nom | role |
---|---|
SESSION_SECRET |
random 32 chars length string used to encode the session id |
REDIS_HTTP_URL |
The URL to the connect to redis HTTP for a key/value store |
DATABASE_URL |
The URL to the connect to the Postres Database |
REDIS_HTTP_USERNAME |
LOCAL file server URL for storing key values |
REDIS_HTTP_PASSWORD |
LOCAL file server URL for storing key values |
GITHUB_CLIENT_ID |
github client id stored for our app used for authenticating users with github |
GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN |
github client token stored for our app used for authenticating users with github |
GITHUB_REDIRECT_URI |
URL to redirect when a user has been authenticated |
GITHUB_SECRET |
github secret stored for our app |