Files

T

Kristian WindandClaude Opus 5 7c9bde2cfd docs(phase6): documentation site, landing page and open-source scaffolding

Material for MkDocs under docs/, covering self-hosting, the Rune, the
quick-add and filter languages, importing from Todoist, CalDAV,
mail-to-task, MCP, the AI layer and the API. The version is pinned: the
maintainers have announced that MkDocs 2.0 removes the plugin system
with no migration path, and an unpinned install would break this build
on the day it lands.

The landing page shows the quick-add parser as actual text rather than a
screenshot of it — that is the thing worth showing, and it reads better
as the real thing. It shares the app's design tokens, so the site and
what it describes look like one project.

MIT licence, contributing guide, security policy and issue templates.
Pages deployment is behind workflow_dispatch, so the docs build on every
push but nothing is published until the owner chooses to.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-17 08:08:36 +02:00

3.0 KiB

Raw Blame History

Self-hosting

verdande is one static binary and one directory. There is no database server, no cache, no queue and no second process.

Docker

docker run -d --name verdande \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -v verdande-data:/data \
  -e VERDANDE_BASE_URL=https://todo.example.dk \
  ghcr.io/kristianwind/verdande:latest

VERDANDE_BASE_URL has to be the address you actually reach it on. Invite links, password resets and calendar feeds are all built from it, so getting it wrong means the links in your email point somewhere that does not answer.

Docker Compose

services:
  verdande:
    image: ghcr.io/kristianwind/verdande:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data
    environment:
      VERDANDE_BASE_URL: https://todo.example.dk
      VERDANDE_SMTP_HOST: mail.example.dk
      VERDANDE_SMTP_USER: verdande@example.dk
      VERDANDE_SMTP_PASS: ${SMTP_PASSWORD}
      VERDANDE_SMTP_FROM: verdande@example.dk

Behind a reverse proxy

verdande expects to be terminated by something else. It reads X-Forwarded-For, so rate limiting and the activity log see the real caller rather than the proxy.

=== "Caddy"

```
todo.example.dk {
    reverse_proxy localhost:8080
}
```

=== "Cloudflare Tunnel"

```yaml
ingress:
  - hostname: todo.example.dk
    service: http://localhost:8080
  - service: http_status:404
```

The WebSocket needs no special handling; Cloudflare proxies it as-is. A silent
socket is closed after 100 seconds, which is why verdande pings every 30.

!!! warning "Use HTTPS" Over plain HTTP the session cookie cannot be Secure, and verdande will not use the __Host- prefix that stops a subdomain overwriting it. Fine on a laptop; not fine on anything reachable from outside.

First run

Open the address and create an account. The first one is the administrator, and the endpoint that creates it refuses once any account exists — so there is no window in which somebody else can claim your instance.

Everybody after that joins by invite.

What lives in `/data`

/data
├── verdande.db      SQLite, WAL mode
├── files/           attachments, content-addressed
└── backups/         nightly snapshots, 14 kept

Back up the whole directory.

!!! danger "Do not copy verdande.db on its own" It runs in WAL mode, so recent writes live in verdande.db-wal until they are checkpointed. A copy of the .db file alone can be missing them. Copy the whole directory, or take one of the nightly snapshots from backups/ — those are written with VACUUM INTO and are complete on their own.

Backups

A snapshot is written once a day and the most recent fourteen are kept. They are counted rather than aged out, so a container that was off for a month comes back with its backups intact.

Updating

docker compose pull && docker compose up -d

Migrations run at startup, each in its own transaction. Take a copy of /data first anyway.

3.0 KiB Raw Blame History