feat: zero-config first boot and pluggable storage backend

Two changes that drop the friction in self-hosting RefBoard so the install
story becomes "docker compose up, open the URL".

1. JWT_SECRET is now optional. On first boot the backend generates a
   64-byte random secret and persists it in the existing settings table.
   process.env.JWT_SECRET still wins when set, so ops setups that manage
   secrets out-of-band are unaffected. The prod-throws-without-env guard
   is gone (auto-generation is a strictly safer default than the previous
   hardcoded dev fallback).

2. STORAGE_BACKEND=fs|minio picks between MinIO (default, unchanged) and
   a new local-filesystem adapter. The FS adapter exposes a fake minioClient
   that mirrors the methods RefBoard calls (statObject, getObject,
   getPartialObject, listObjectsV2, putObject, removeObject(s), bucketExists,
   makeBucket), so consumers swap require('./minio') for require('./storage')
   and nothing else changes. Sidecar .mime files hold Content-Type so the
   range-aware media proxy still serves the right response headers.

examples/compose/minimal-fs.yml is the single-container variant that uses
the FS adapter. The default docker-compose.yml still spins up MinIO.

README quick-start collapses to one block (cp .env, docker compose pull,
docker compose up -d). The first user you register on the Login screen is
auto-promoted to admin, same as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Hiren Kangad
2026-05-21 09:51:20 +05:30
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.7
parent 9328713ae5
commit 76a6e462ee
13 changed files with 382 additions and 35 deletions
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@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ services:
restart: unless-stopped
refboard:
image: ${REFBOARD_IMAGE:-ghcr.io/metalfinger/refboard:latest}
build: .
container_name: refboard
depends_on:
@@ -36,6 +37,8 @@ services:
MINIO_ACCESS_KEY: ${MINIO_ACCESS_KEY:-minioadmin}
MINIO_SECRET_KEY: ${MINIO_SECRET_KEY:-minioadmin}
MINIO_BUCKET: ${MINIO_BUCKET:-refboard}
STORAGE_BACKEND: ${STORAGE_BACKEND:-minio}
STORAGE_DATA_DIR: ${STORAGE_DATA_DIR:-/app/data/storage}
PUBLIC_URL: ${PUBLIC_URL:-}
MAX_FILE_SIZE_MB: ${MAX_FILE_SIZE_MB:-200}
CORS_ORIGIN: ${CORS_ORIGIN:-*}