reminder-app

Reminder app helps you to stay on top of you reminders!

Reminder app runs locally on a server listening on the port you can configure during installation. With a use of a process manager, pm2, it can also start reminder-app during your machine startup (we support all platform Linux, Windows, and MacOS).

Reminder app allows you to setup up reminders and can notify you, when they are due, using web push notifications. The notification only works if the browser is open, however, the reminder-app tab does not need to be open to get those notifications. We also plan to write an extension in near feature so you can add reminder's easily.

Why did I create reminder-app?

Well, I use to use a notepad to keep track of stuff in high school, but now since we have computers and work online, I feel like having to get my notepad is not too convient anymore and so I made reminder-app in though of benefits it could provide with the biggest one being it could notify me.

Section links

• Install reminder app
• Installing using docker
• Upgrading reminder-app
• Devlopement - Running the dev server

Useful documentation about managing reminder-app is in docs/index.md. You can also checkout other documentation in docs/ directory

To quickly test reminder-app out online we do have the project hosted on glitch, visit https://reminder-app.glitch.me/ to quickly test it out! Glitch does take some time to start up so expect couple of seconds of waiting time. If you suspect that hosted app on glitch is not up to date or doesn't work open an issue and we will fix it.

Install reminder-app

Installing reminder-app will make it so you don't have to run the server yourself (manually in a terminal or keep the terminal open to run the reminder-app!) and installation also provides a option to configure it so reminder-app starts on machine startup for all platforms (Windows, MacOS, and Linux). If you decide not to choose that option at first (during installation) you can later configure that by running the startup script node scripts/init-startup. You can also start reminder-app manually by running node scripts/start.

Installation is pretty simple, just run the install script:

node scripts/install

# if you use git-bash for windows or not see a spinner
# on windows, you'll need to use `winpty` which is bundled with git
# If you don't use winpty the installtion will run just fine but
# the spinner we show will not output
winpty node scripts/install

Installation script will do couple of things: install npm dependencies, build frontend assets using webpack, and run database migrations. It also starts the production process manager pm2 that will make sure the app runs in the background, so a terminal windows does not have to be open.

Docker Installation

You can also install reminder-app using docker:

# build the reminder-app docker image
[sudo] docker build -t reminder-app .

# run the image; can be accessed through port 7000.
[sudo] docker run -p 7000:7000 -d reminder-app

Eventhough, you can install using docker you can't have the start on machine startup feature of reminder-app unless you install reminder-app directly on you machine. If you don't want that feature and prefer docker this option is for you and it is like running node script/start to start reminder-app when you need it.

Upgrading reminder-app

To upgrade reminder-app you'll need to fetch the latest code from github. Pulling latest code does not upgrade the reminder-app. To finish the upgrade run the upgrade script node scripts/upgrade to finish the upgrade. It will involve minor downtime (it yet needs some optimizations!).

# for to example upgrading to a specific tag v1.0.0-beta
# fetch all remote refs.
git fetch --all

# checkout out to sepecific tag
git checkout v1.0.0-beta

# run the upgrade script
node scripts/upgrade

Running the dev-server

Install the npm dependencies using npm i if you haven't already then:

node tools/dev-server

# if you are using windows we recommend using `winpty`
# otherwise Ctrl+C does not kill dev-server depending on what you are
# using (specially git-bash for windows)
winpty node tools/dev-server

# if on unix you can also do, which works for almost
# most of our tools in tools/
./tools/dev-server
# or
tools/dev-server

The dev server by default runs on localhost:7213, you can customize this by setting the PORT enviorment variable to whatever you want instead. And also note that there is also webpack-dev-server that gets started when you run the dev-server by default it will start on port 7214 or on the next port of (if specified) PORT.