Get Started

Setting Up a Testing Server

This is a Next.js development server and should not be used for production.

npm install -g pnpm
pnpm install
pnpm dev

Configuring .env

Now that you have a working local server, You're going to stop it and now you're going to make a .env file and follow the example below.

.env

DATABASE_URL=""
NEXTAUTH_URL=""
NEXTAUTH_SECRET=""
SENDGRID_API=""
EMAIL_FROM=""
EMAIL_SERVER_HOST=""
EMAIL_SERVER_PORT=""
EMAIL_SERVER_USER=""
# This can be changed to a password to any SMTP server
EMAIL_SERVER_PASSWORD=$SENDGRID_API
GITHUB_ID=""
GITHUB_SECRET=""
DISCORD_CLIENT_ID=""
DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET=""

Values

General

DATABASE_URL is the URL to your database. If you're using a local database, you can use postgresql://postgres:password@localhost:5432/anycode as the value.

NEXTAUTH_URL is the public URL for your AnyCode instance.

NEXTAUTH_SECRET is a randomly generated string that is used to encrypt the email verification tokens. You can generate a string using openssl rand -base64 32.

Email

SENDGRID_API can be used if you are using SendGrid to send emails.

EMAIL_FROM is the email address that will be used to send emails.

EMAIL_SERVER_HOST is the SMTP server host.

EMAIL_SERVER_PORT is the SMTP server port.

EMAIL_SERVER_USER is the SMTP server username.

EMAIL_SERVER_PASSWORD is the SMTP server password.

OAuth

GITHUB_ID is the GitHub OAuth client ID.

GITHUB_SECRET is the GitHub OAuth client secret.

DISCORD_CLIENT_ID is the Discord OAuth client ID.

DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET is the Discord OAuth client secret.

Next, setup PostgreSQL. You can easily setup a PostgreSQL database using Docker by running docker run --name anyvm-postgres -p 5432:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=replaceme -d postgres, and updating your env file accordingly.

After you have created the .env file, make sure that your database is running, and run the following commands.

pnpm install
pnpm db
pnpm build

Now you can start the server using pnpm start. You should now be able to access your AnyCode instance at localhost:3000, which you can proxy through something such as Nginx or Caddy to make it accessible from the internet.