MYKB

A file system/markdown based knowledge base editor/viewer

Demo

You can try the demo at: https://mykb.jjsweb.site

- Login
email: notadmin
password: secretpass

P.S. the demo is reset every 10 minutes

About

MYKB is a simple file system/markdown based knowledge base editor/viewer built with Feathers and Next.js

Current features:

• live preview when editing a doc
• live file system watching
• caching of docs to speed up searching/viewing of docs
• automatic git versioning
• automatic trusting of cloudflare reverse proxies

Installing

Getting up and running is as easy as 1, 2, 3

1. Clone repo

   git clone https://github.com/ijjk/mykb
   

2. Install dependencies (omit --prod if developing)

   cd path/to/mykb; npm i --prod
   

3. Start it

   npm start
   

Options

host.json

Name	Description
host	The host to listen on
port	The port to listen on
pathPrefix	Used to prefix all urls for reverse proxies

production.json (overrides default.json with production NODE_ENV var)

Name	Description
useGit	Whether or not to use a git repo to automatically version changes to docs (requires git to be installed)
docsDir	The directory where the markdown docs are located
cacheSize	Max size of docs to store in memory for faster searching (default 7.5MB)
trustCloudflare	Whether to trust X-Forwarded-For header from cloudflare IPs (used for rate limiting)

If using git the user.email and user.name configs need to be set either globally or on the docs repo

trustIPs.json - An array of proxy-addr compatible addresses to trust the X-Forwarded-For header from (Only needed if behind reverse proxy)

Testing

Simply run npm test and all your tests in the test/ directory will be run

License

Copyright (c) 2017

Licensed under the MIT license.