🪴 Garden

A simple web archive.

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What is it?

Garden is a (somewhat) simple web archiver I wrote in a weekend, in part to toy around with Prisma and Geist UI. I chose the name "Garden" because of the feeling one gets when growing a collection.

Features

• ✨ Modern. Powered by Next.js, Express, Geist UI, Tailwind.
• 📄 Minimal. It serves one purpose, so it should do it well.

Installation

The only prerequisites are wget, as it's the magical ingredient that powers Garden, and yarn, which is my package manager of choice.

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/gBasil/garden
cd garden

# Install dependencies, build, and run
# If you aren't using yarn, you should. It has emojis.
yarn
yarn prisma db push
yarn build
yarn start

Configuring Garden is pretty simple, as there isn't too much to configure. The instructions are located in the config.js file in the root directory, and assumes you posses at least a somewhat basic technical knowledge of computers.

Why not just use ArchiveBox?

I tried it, but I have several bones ripe for picking with ArchiveBox.

For one, you have to install a global CLI tool. I don't find myself needing to archive things often, so I don't really have a need for that, though you could argue the same about this project.

Second, it just feels like overkill. I didn't touch most of the options given to me, and the wget website downloader was the only one that seemed to work. The only thing I really care about and the only reason I'm using a website archiver in the first place is to, well, archive websites.

Third, and this is just a personal preference, I don't like using things with (in my humble opinion) old interfaces.

If ArchiveBox seems like a better fit for you, go ahead and use it. It is much more mature and better than my homegrown solution.

Structure

Dashboard - Next.js with Geist UI and Tailwind CSS server running on port 3000.

File Server - Express server on port 3001.

Prisma is used by both of these to interface with a SQLite database.

Drawbacks

• No authentication.
• Exclusively developed and test on a MacBook.

If any of these are dealbreakers for you, use ArchiveBox or tweak Garden yourself and submit a pull request.