Paperwork is an open-source, self-hosted alternative to services like Evernote ®, Microsoft OneNote ® or Google Keep ®
This branch contains the second iteration of Paperwork, which is a complete rewrite. Not only is it based on another framework - it is based on a completely different technology stack. It is in its very early development phase and not yet usable.
If you were looking for the Laravel-based version 1 of Paperwork, please check out this branch. Version 1 is not in active development anymore!
Feel free to check out this branch and get involved with what's there already to get an idea of where Paperwork is heading. Also check out the current issues to see what needs to be done or suggest what could be done in future iterations.
Also, you can join the official chatroom and participate there.
Info: 99% of the action happens inside the other repositories! This repository only contains of the one-click-deployment of Paperwork!
In order to get Paperwork in its current state (under development) running, you have to have an understanding for how Docker and DNS works and know the basic concepts of HTTP proxying. Also, experience with Traefik and Minio might come in handy.
If you don't have that, then the current state of Paperwork probably isn't for you in first place. To make it clear: This software is not usable at this moment. It's being worked on to be made usable in the near future. In its current state, Paperwork v2 is targeted to developers that would like to get their hands dirty and contribute to the project.
A demo of the current Paperwork status is available at http://www.demo.paperwork.cloud (sorry, no HTTPs yet!). This instance won't persist data on the server side, but it does cache it inside your browser session. The instance is being destroyed every night at 1am UTC. Therefor all accounts are only valid for maximum one day. Please do not use this instance to store actual data/sensitive information!
This demo instance is sponsored by twostairs.
This repository is structuring and unifying all required components for Paperwork. It its purpose is to provide an example of how you could host Paperwork yourself. However, please keep in mind that the stack file used in this repository should not be used for real-world, internet-facing deployments, as it lacks the ability to manage credentials between services in a secure manner.
$ git clone [email protected]:paperwork/paperwork.git
In order to easily get Paperwork running as a Docker stack, utilising whichever orchestrator you'd like, this repository comes with a handy Makefile. Let's have a look at it:
$ make help
Launching the Paperwork can be done by make-ing the
deploy` target:
$ make deploy
The Makefile then takes care of initialising Swarm, in case you haven't done that already, creating the encrypted network (papernet
) and deploying the Paperwork stack on top of it.
This Docker stack is configured to use www.paperwork.local
(for the web UI) and api.paperwork.local
(for the API services) by default. Hence you will need to add these to the 127.0.0.1
entry in your /etc/hosts
file:
127.0.0.1 localhost paperwork.local api.paperwork.local www.paperwork.local
If you'd want to use a different domain and different hostnames for web and API, make sure to export the following env variables:
PAPERWORK_API_PROTOCOL
(http
by default,https
also possible)PAPERWORK_API_HOSTNAME
(api
by default)PAPERWORK_WEB_HOSTNAME
(www
by default)PAPERWORK_DOMAIN
(paperwork.local
by default)
In addition to these variables, you can also use the following ones to override a couple of other defaults:
PAPERWORK_JWT_SECRET
(the JWT secret used byservice_gatekeeper
andservice_users
)
In order to stop/remove the whole stack, simply use the undeploy
target:
$ make undeploy
Note: This won't make your Docker host leave Swarm again, in case it wasn't running in Swarm mode before deploying! If you'd like to turn off Swarm, you have to manually do so.
If you'd like to use a different orchestrator for stack deployment, you can do so by setting the ORCHESTRATOR
variable on deploy:
$ make deploy ORCHESTRATOR=kubernetes
For more info, check the official Docker documentation for Mac and Windows.
As soon as you've finished the setup, you should be able to access your Paperwork deployment through this URL and you should be greeted with the login/registration:
In order to use Paperwork, you will need to register a new account.
Please refer to the individual services' repositories in order to get more information on how to contribute.
Here are the main repositories of Paperwork v2:
paperwork
: This repository, containing the one-click-deployment and overall documentationpaperwork.ex
: Elixir SDK for building Paperwork servicesservice-gatekeeper
: Gatekeeper service built in Rust, that reverse-proxies requests to individual services and takes care of JWT validation/decodingservice-configs
: Configurations service built in Elixir, that stores instance configs and provides them through an internal endpoint to other servicesservice-users
: Users service built in Elixir, that stores user information and provides endpoints for users to register, login and update their informationservice-notes
: Notes service built in Elixir, that stores all user's notesservice-storages
: Storages service built in Elixir, that stores all user's attachmentsservice-journals
: Journals service built in Elixir, that stores events related to database changes inside journals in order to provide information about these changes to the API clientsweb
: Angular 7-based web front-end for Paperwork
The Paperwork project consists of a handful of custom-built API services, which take care of everything related to their specific domain: Configurations, users, notes & attachments. Underneath those, there are various infrastructure services which are either implemented by the Paperwork project (service-gatekeeper
) or simply awesome third-party open-source projects that's being made use of (e.g. Minio and Traefik).
The API services provide the core logic that processes domain specific data and persists it on the service's own database. Each API service has its own database that no other services accesses directly. Instead, services communicate with each other through internal HTTP endpoints. The gatekeeper service abstracts the authorisation layer from each individual service by checking and decoding the JWT bearer, so that every service that runs behind service-gatekeeper
can be sure that access was validated and session information is forwarded and accessible via HTTP headers. JWT crafting is currently done in service-users
. Hence, service-gatekeeper
and service-users
need to share the same JWT secret. Implementation in this area is kept simple for now but will change with the introduction of OAuth 2.
While the API services are not exchangeable, infrastructure services usually are. For example Traefik could be replaced with NGINX, Minio with a real Amazon S3 storage and even gatekeeper could more or less easily be replaced with Kong or a similar API gateway in future. API services on the other hand are tightly integrated with the business logic and their own databases. Also, because they exchange information with each other through internal endpoints, they depend on each other and (partially) on their peer's data structures. For example the notes service performs an internal request towards the users service when a note is being requested, in order to include user information (first name, last name, etc) for every access
definition within that note. This aggregation of data is not necessary form a back-end point of view and is only done in order to make things more comfortable for the UI layer. While, from a separation-of-concerns-perspective this might not be an ideal setup, it reduces complexity for now and allows the project to iterate quite quickly.
On top of the infrastructure and API services there is the UI layer that was just mentioned, which currently consists of the Paperwork Web UI. The web UI is a PWA built on Angular 7 that talks to the API services through the gatekeeper service. It's aimed to provide 100% offline use capabilities, so that it can be worked with in scenarios in which there's no connectivity to the API.
This repository not only features a one-click Docker Stack deployment, but also a local development environment which should work on any Linux/Unix platform. The goal is to provide you with a way to easily run an environment you can use to develop on individual services or UIs.
In order to launch the local development environment, simply utilise the same make command you use for running local development instances for each Paperwork service: make local-run-develop
$ cd paperwork/
$ make local-run-develop
The local dev env will start up with a short info on what's needed in order for it to function correctly. Please read the instructions provided there and follow them carefully. You will need to have some dependencies (e.g. Docker, Caddy) ready to use in order for the local dev environment to function.
Also make sure to have the following TCP ports free on your system while using the local dev env:
1337
:service-gatekeeper
4200
:web
5672
: RabbitMQ (a.k.a.service-events
)8000
: Caddy proxy9000
: Minio (used asservice-storages
back-end)15672
: RabbitMQ management interface, default login usernameguest
, passwordguest
Optionally, if you plan to run any of the following services, you'll need to make sure to have their local dev env ports free as well:
8080
:service-configs
8081
:service-users
8082
:service-notes
8083
:service-storages
8084
:service-journals
Check this video (38MB) in order to see how easy it is to get your local development up and running with make local-run-develop
.
As for now, all tasks/issues are being collected inside this repository, just to keep it simple. On a long term, tasks/issues will be transferred into the related service's repository, in order to be able to reference them through git commits.
The best way to help this project is by contributing to the code. However, if that should not be possible to you, but you'd still like to help, the Paperwork project gladly accepts donations in form of Bitcoins and Ether. Please use the following addresses to direct your donations:
CAUTION: Do not send any donations to anywhere else but those addresses. Unfortunately we had situations in which random people (that were not affiliated with this project in any kind) posted PayPal addresses inside GitHub issues in order to scam money.
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