DIYBB

A lite bbs on nodejs + react

Environment

1. node 8+
2. redis
3. A sequelize database driver (We suggest mysql2)

How to start dev server

# start backend-server
cd server
cp .env.example .env
# Confiure your custom .env
PORT=SERVERPORT npm start

# start frontend-server
cd ../www
cp .env.example .env
# Confiure your custom .env
PORT=WEBPORT npm start

Then you can find your site on http://localhost:WEBPORT.

The default SERVERPORT is 3000 and WEBPORT is 3001. You may need to change the PROXY_HOST in .env file if you set a different server port.

server/.env

Configure Database, Session and storage directory.

www/.env

Configure your LOGO text, etc

How to deploy on production server

You can start backend-server on your production server just like the way on dev server. We suggest to use [pm2](https://github.com/Unitech/pm2) to manager your node progress.

Then cd www && npm run build. It will make a dist.tar.gz file on www directory.

Unzip the tar.gz file on your server, and use nginx or anything you like to let the page can be visitted on internet.

The last step. You'll proxy requests like /api/* to your server. Here is a nginx conf example:

server {
  listen     80;
  server_name  www.example.com example.com;

  charset utf-8;

  location / {
    root  /var/www/diybb;
    index  index.html;
    expires      24h;
  }

  location /api/ {
    proxy_pass http://localhost:3000/;
  }
}