DeviceSync V2

About

DeviceSync is an open source cross-platform note-taking application under the MIT License

Usage | Application can be found here

Phone Installation:

Tap on your browser menu and tap the Add To Homescreen button

You can then open DeviceSync from the home screen, and it will look like it's very own app!

Computer Usage:

You're likely to use the site as usual on PC, but if you'd like browsers like Brave support a similar look to the PWA on mobile. To achieve this open the browser menu, go to more tools, and click Create Shortcut. This will then open a promp for the shortcut name and give a untoggled option "Open In Window" make sure to toggle that then press add

You can then open DeviceSync from the desktop, and it will have its own window separate from your regular browser tabs

If you're a power-user or just like having the power of a Command Line Interface, you're in luck DeviceSync has it's very own CLI written in Python3. To install it follow the instructions below

Note: Only works on Linux

Bash Shell

sudo bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZadenMaestas/DeviceSync/main/bin/install-cli.sh)

Fish Shell:

sudo bash (curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZadenMaestas/DeviceSync/main/bin/install-cli.sh | psub)

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Why the rewrite?

I've thought of a lot of things I could do better with DeviceSync, both in how I advertise the application, and the tech stach used with it, where the last version was written in a shoddy Python Flask backend and was not even on the same domain, this version is written in NodeJS using ExpressJS to manage both page endpoints and API endpoints, and I was just bored near the end of summer

Features

• Note system with CRUD support (create, read, update, delete)
• Allows the copying of note content, editing of existing notes, and the deletion of existing notes
• Account system with BCrypt password hashing using LevelDB
• CLI Available For Linux | Click Here To Learn More
• Ability to self-host the application
• Custom UI theming
• More updates on the way!
  • Planned features include
    • ToDos
    • User note groups
    • Account portal

Current Tech Stack

• NodeJS
  • Modules:
    • Production:
      • Express | Quite popular web server framework that I wanted to try
      • LevelDB | Key Value Storage Solution
      • BcryptJS | Used for password hashing
    • Development:
      • nodemon | Enables hot reloading for the server which is essential for me personally
      • livereload & connect-livereload | Another layer of adding hot reloading but reloads changes on browser
• HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• CSS Microframework used: Chota

Development and Contribution:

Pull requests and positive contributions are appreciated in any way!

Running server

git clone https://github.com/ZadenMaestas/DeviceSync.git
cd DeviceSync/src
npm install
npm run dev

Self-hosting

You are more than welcome to host your own instance of DeviceSync on your own server, simply follow the development instructions above

Documentation

Current state of API documentation can be found here