Backend

Vencord API

Hosting

The API has a Docker Compose configuration, so software-wise you shouldn't need much more than just Docker. Docker is the official way of hosting the backend, and other setups (whilst technically supported) will be up to you to manage.

1. Clone the repository
2. Copy .env.example to .env
3. Configure as necessary

• Port and host are irrelevant since it's running in a container, but you can change them if you wish.
• REDIS_URI should be changed to redis:6379.
• ROOT_REDIRECT should be changed to whatever you want the / of the API to be set to a different site, like your own personal homepage.
• DISCORD_* should be configured with your Discord application. The redirect URI is https://<yourdomain>/v1/oauth/callback.
• PEPPER_* should be unique values. These provide extra anonymity and make it more difficult to get user info. It is recommended you use at least 32 bytes of randomness, e.g. through openssl rand -hex 32.
• SIZE_LIMIT is up to you, but should usually be left as default. This is for the settings sync and how much data a user can store.
• ALLOWED_USERS restricts what users can use this API instance for operations like settings sync.
• PROMETHEUS controls whether or not to expose the /metrics endpoint.
• PROXY_HEADER should be used if you're running it behind a reverse proxy or another service (i.e., Cloudflare).

4. Create a docker-compose.override.yml that maps your ports, like so:

   services:
     backend:
       ports:
         - HOST_PORT:8080

5. docker compose up -d

Please note that, due to mixed content requirements, you will need HTTPS on your self-hosted instance.