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Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Re: Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Post by daedric7 »

smlacy wrote: post #8
dmje wrote: post #6

I miss the days where app installation was just "unzip, edit the config file, upload to your web server and hit up the install page". Now it's all Docker and gulp and build and urgh soooo complicated.

Couldn't agree more! The real irony is that usually it's sold as "Docker makes installing, upgrading and maintaining easier."

I'm sorry, but it does. Docker compose at least.

Re: Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Post by flo123456 »

dmje wrote: post #6

I miss the days where app installation was just "unzip, edit the config file, upload to your web server and hit up the install page". Now it's all Docker and gulp and build and urgh soooo complicated.

If you run NixOS you get a similar experience because it’s often just services.foo.enable = true; edit a couple options to your needs and you‘re good to go. :-)

Re: Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Post by aaviator42 »

dmje wrote: post #6

I miss the days where app installation was just "unzip, edit the config file, upload to your web server and hit up the install page". Now it's all Docker and gulp and build and urgh soooo complicated.

Some of us still write code like that :P

https://github.com/aaviator42/izi

Re: Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Post by layer8 »

dmje wrote: post #6

I miss the days where app installation was just "unzip, edit the config file, upload to your web server and hit up the install page". Now it's all Docker and gulp and build and urgh soooo complicated.

I miss the days when you could install most things via apt-get and thus have security updates automated, documentation in a standard location, and so on.

Re: Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Post by tryfinally »

dmje wrote: post #6

I miss the days where app installation was just "unzip, edit the config file, upload to your web server and hit up the install page". Now it's all Docker and gulp and build and urgh soooo complicated.

I host tens of self-hosted apps for various purposes, including ones similar to this one, all via docker-compose. Setting up new ones is a breeze (thanks to Traefik), backing up the configuration and data is trivial, upgrading to the latest version takes a few minutes at most. I’m confident my workflow is simpler and more convenient than yours. Granted, the initial investment to learn and understand the tools is pretty large.

Re: Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Post by feanaro »

dmje wrote: post #6

I miss the days where app installation was just "unzip, edit the config file, upload to your web server and hit up the install page". Now it's all Docker and gulp and build and urgh soooo complicated.

I miss the days when app installation had nothing to do with web servers.

Re: Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app

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Post by anthropodie »

bioemerl wrote: post #19
dmje wrote: post #6

I miss the days where app installation was just "unzip, edit the config file, upload to your web server and hit up the install page". Now it's all Docker and gulp and build and urgh soooo complicated.

Docker is crazy simple, I love it.

What I don't like about Docker is it does not respect the firewall rules that I setup using something like ufw.
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