My Journal

This app allows you to setup your own private journal using Docker. To use a custom domain for your journal you need to configure a web proxy server, like Nginx that can handle your domain zone, and probably TLS certificats, like "Let's Encrypt".

Built on top of Loopback 3 and VueJS 2.

Setup

# set password for journal
echo 'MYJOURNAL_PASSWORD=123456' > .docker-env

Development

Node 11.15.0 is required

# install nvm (https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm)
nvm install 11.15.0
nvm use 11.15.0

add the next line to your hosts file

127.0.0.1 db

# install base dev dependencies
npm install --global nodemon

# start database
docker compose up -d db

# start back-end
npm install
npm run dev

# start front-end (in a new terminal)
cd client
npm install
npm run dev

# optional, set host to check from another device
HOST=10.0.0.1 npm run dev

Production

# clone repo
git clone https://github.com/manyahin/myjournal.git
cd myjournal

# set password
echo 'MYJOURNAL_PASSWORD=123456' > .docker-env

# build
docker-compose build

# start production
npm run prod

Update production

For web service:

git pull origin master
docker-compose build web
docker-compose rm -s -v web
docker-compose -f production.yml up -d web
docker-compose logs web

Backup

The backup script will make dump of MongoDB, archive it as tar.gz and upload to Dropbox.

All the scripts need to be executed as root to avoid root ownership over mounted volumes. It needs to be fixed in the later versions.

# setup dropbox app token (only once)
/backup/dropbox_uploader.sh
# the token will be stored in `~/.dropbox_uploader`

# run the script
/backup/run.sh

# setup cron job (only once)
crontab -l | { cat; echo "0 0 * * * /var/www/myjournal/backup/run.sh &>> /var/www/myjournal/backup/cron.log"; } | crontab -
# it runs the backup script every day at midnight

Restore DB

tar -zxvf $FILE.tar.gz

docker run --rm --network myjournal_default -v "$(pwd)/mongo_dump":/backup mongo:5.0 bash -c 'mongorestore /backup --host db:27017'

Git Bash in Windows has the bug, add the leading slash before $(pwd) in that case. The same technique should be used for /backup/run.sh script.

docker run --rm --network myjournal_default -v "/$(pwd)/mongo_dump":/backup mongo:5.0 bash -c 'mongorestore /backup --host db:27017'