PinkSea
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An oekaki BBS running as an AT Protocol AppView.

Running

Backend (AppView)

In order to run the AppView, you need the .NET 8 SDK and the Entity Framework tools package, which you can install through dotnet tools -g install dotnet-ef.

First-time run

1. Run docker compose up -d inside of the root folder to start PostgreSQL (if you do not have PostgreSQL installed yet.)

2. Open the PinkSea folder

3. Copy the sample appsettings.example.json file to appsettings.json

   1. Modify the PostgresConfig to point to your PostgreSQL settings. If you're using the supplied docker compose, you do not need to change this.
   2. Point the AppViewConfig URL to where your AppView will reside, this is the URL that will be used to identify your PinkSea instance. (As an example, for the official PinkSea instance, it's https://api.pinksea.art)
   3. (OPTIONAL) Point the FrontendConfig to point to where your PinkSea frontend resides. This is used for BlueSky cross-posting with a link. Leaving it blank will disallow cross-posting. (Again, as an example, for the official PinkSea instance it's https://pinksea.art)

4. Perform dotnet ef database update to run the neccessary migrations.

5. Run dotnet run --configuration Release to start the PinkSea AppView.

That's it! Your server now is connected to the ATmosphere and is ready to start cooperating with other PinkSea AppViews.

Updating

1. Navigate to the PinkSea folder.
2. Run dotnet ef database update to run the migrations.
3. Once again, run dotnet run --configuration Release to start the server in Release mode.

Frontend (Client app)

In order to run the client app locally, you need a fairly modern Node.js version. Anything above Node 20 works, but I personally recommend the latest LTS version.

Configuration

1. Navigate to PinkSea.Frontend.
2. Run npm i to download the required packages.
3. Navigate to the src/api/atproto folder.
4. Point the serviceEndpoint value inside of client.ts to your AppView instance. (For example, for the official PinkSea instance, the endpoint is https://api.pinksea.art)

Running a local server

1. Navigate to PinkSea.Frontend
2. Run npm i to update the packages.
3. Finally, execute npm run dev, to start a local development server with code reloading.

Building

1. Navigate to PinkSea.Frontend
2. Run npm i to update the packages.
3. Finally, execute npm run build, to build and minify the client app.

The built app will be inside of the dist folder.

License

The PinkSea code (with the exception of PinkSea.AtProto and PinkSea.AtProto.Server) is licensed under the European Union Public License-1.2. PinkSea.AtProto is released into the public domain as specified by the Unlicense. The appropriate licenses are in each folder's LICENSE files.