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Hiren KangadandClaude Opus 4.7 76a6e462ee 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>
2026-05-21 09:51:20 +05:30

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# Single-container RefBoard with local-filesystem storage.
#
# Use this instead of the repo-root docker-compose.yml when you don't want to
# run MinIO. State is stored under ./.docker-data/refboard/ (SQLite + media
# bytes + JWT secret, all together — back this directory up).
#
# Usage:
# cp .env.example .env # most values can stay at defaults
# docker compose -f examples/compose/minimal-fs.yml up -d
services:
refboard:
image: ${REFBOARD_IMAGE:-ghcr.io/metalfinger/refboard:latest}
container_name: refboard
environment:
PORT: 8000
NODE_ENV: ${NODE_ENV:-production}
# JWT_SECRET is optional — RefBoard generates one on first boot and
# persists it in the SQLite settings table. Override here if you'd
# rather manage it out-of-band.
JWT_SECRET: ${JWT_SECRET:-}
JWT_EXPIRES_IN: ${JWT_EXPIRES_IN:-7d}
DB_PATH: /app/data/refboard.db
STORAGE_BACKEND: fs
STORAGE_DATA_DIR: /app/data/storage
PUBLIC_URL: ${PUBLIC_URL:-}
MAX_FILE_SIZE_MB: ${MAX_FILE_SIZE_MB:-200}
CORS_ORIGIN: ${CORS_ORIGIN:-*}
SEED_ADMIN_EMAIL: ${SEED_ADMIN_EMAIL:-}
SEED_ADMIN_PASSWORD: ${SEED_ADMIN_PASSWORD:-}
SEED_ADMIN_USERNAME: ${SEED_ADMIN_USERNAME:-}
SEED_ADMIN_DISPLAY_NAME: ${SEED_ADMIN_DISPLAY_NAME:-}
ALLOW_SELF_REGISTRATION: ${ALLOW_SELF_REGISTRATION:-false}
REFBOARD_API_KEY: ${REFBOARD_API_KEY:-}
ports:
- "8000:8000"
volumes:
- ./.docker-data/refboard:/app/data
restart: unless-stopped