Server container for Polar Bookshelf about docker-polar-bookshelf

[m0wer]

Hi @alexanderadam,

I just found out that the webserver code is published, but I don't know any container for the host. Does the repo you link contain the full server backend?

I wouldn't mind working on a Dockerfile for it, but if there is at least some basic documentation about the server.

[alexanderadam]

Does the repo you link contain the full server backend?

To be honest: I have no idea. I wasn't able to find anything about it.
The webserver seem to be simple and doesn't seem to contain any auth stuff but it contains a dependency to the package polar-shared from what I can see.
I don't know whether and how self hosting of polar bookshelf could be possible.

if there is at least some basic documentation about the server.

I cannot find any documentation on that whatsoever.
Which is strange because on the one hand it's called a "personal knowledge repository" but then again it doesn't seem to document to have a personal instance of the backend component.

There's also their claim 'Polar is always Open Source! We're "free as in liberty."'. But then again the README's of polar-shared and polar-shared-webserver won't provide anything, so there doesn't seem to be real liberty to help people setting up their own instances.
Or it is at least more difficult since there's no documentation.

That's also one of the reasons why I'm not even sure how 'personal' this application really is, if it is even tracking various personal events and data (but that's of course another issue 😉).

So in that case it would rather be as "personal" as Facebook: you are free to put your personal information in the cloud that belongs to somebody else.

[m0wer]

Does the repo you link contain the full server backend?

To be honest: I have no idea. I wasn't able to find anything about it.
The webserver seem to be simple and doesn't seem to contain any auth stuff but it contains a dependency to the package polar-shared from what I can see.
I don't know whether and how self hosting of polar bookshelf could be possible.

if there is at least some basic documentation about the server.

I cannot find any documentation on that whatsoever.
Which is strange because on the one hand it's called a "personal knowledge repository" but then again it doesn't seem to document to have a personal instance of the backend component.

There's also their claim 'Polar is always Open Source! We're "free as in liberty."'. But then again the README's of polar-shared and polar-shared-webserver won't provide anything, so there doesn't seem to be real liberty to help people setting up their own instances.
Or it is at least more difficult since there's no documentation.

That's also one of the reasons why I'm not even sure how 'personal' this application really is, if it is even tracking various personal events and data (but that's of course another issue ).

So in that case it would rather be as "personal" as Facebook: you are free to put your personal information in the cloud that belongs to somebody else.

Maybe it isn't possible to self host the server yet. The creator of polar said: "Polar isn't fully self hosted but that defeats the point. My cure hypothesis is that knowledge benefits from being social which is the main thing I'm trying to test. By the time I'm done I think 95% of you would agree that keeping it private is insane as you don't benefit from the community." in Polar as a Personal Knowledge Repository | Hacker News.

[alexanderadam]

Well, this would be a pity.