comment-castles

Yeah, here is what you need to do: - install Node.js, Redis and PostgreSQL - start the Redis server - start PostgreSQL, create a database and run structure.sql: https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles/blob/master/sql/st... - get all the source code for the actual app (ie. the code from the comment castles repo) - figure out all your environment variables (the ones I list in the README) - now you can run the node app (you probably want to use pm2 if on Linux) - then connect that running node app to the public internet (I use something random for the HTTP_PORT environment variable, like 3333, and then I Nginx reverse proxy that to port 80 on my domain name (I will try to get this Nginx code and post it here later)) - and then I run the let's encrypt certbot for https

Comment castles: https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles (I'm the developer)

I develop a HN/Reddit/Lobste.rs like internet forum [0]. It's Node/Postgres with a vanilla SSR front-end. It's not serverless. [0] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

I develop an internet forum [0] that uses express-session with a Redis datastore for standard username and password website login. Separately, it also has a JSON API that uses OAuth 2 auth code flow with PKCE [1]. [0] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles [1] https://www.commentcastles.org/api#api-user-authentication