Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server

1. orbstack

   1 52 6,746 2.8 Shell

   Fast, light, simple Docker containers & Linux machines

   

   If you use a Mac and just want to mess around with linux try something like Orbstack(https://orbstack.dev/) to start up VMs and mess around. The benefit of this is you're going to break things a bunch as you get started. Going from there I'd start looking automating the deployment of the various components the 'old fashioned' way aka writing shell scripts/using SSH. Once you do that then go to using things like Ansible or Terraform etc.

2. Civic Auth

   www.civic.com featured

   Auth in Less Than 5 Minutes. Civic Auth comes with multiple SSO options, optional embedded wallets, and user management — all implemented with just a few lines of code. Start building today.

   

3. setup

   2 2 4 3.2 Jinja

   A set of scripts to setup the scanner webapp, API and model store. (by scancer-org)

   

   - Come up with ways to start and stop services and such

   In the end, as you start to see patterns for all this, you will find it beneficial to script everything in some way so that you can easily reuse patterns and lessons on other servers and apps.

   I tend to use Ansible for this, and here is a concrete example of all sorts of things you might find interesting: https://github.com/scancer-org/setup

   This sets up a server, locks it down, adds a python app with a worker set and so on: https://github.com/scancer-org/setup

   Good luck on your learning journey!

4. www.mechaelephant.com

   3 3 1 8.7 JavaScript

   website for www.mechaelephant.com

   

5. calebharrington.com

   4 1 0 - JavaScript

   source code for the website CalebHarrington.com

   

6. dev

   5 1 275 7.0 Roff

   dev log (by abetusk)

   

   https://github.com/abetusk/dev

7. sqlite

   6 25 122 10.0 C

   sqlite mirror (by smparkes)

   

8. Skeleton

   7 7 19,194 0.0 CSS

   Skeleton: A Dead Simple, Responsive Boilerplate for Mobile-Friendly Development

   

9. SurveyJS

   surveyjs.io featured

   JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor. Add the SurveyJS white-label form builder to your JavaScript app (React/Angular/Vue3). Build complex JSON forms without coding. Fully customizable, works with any backend, perfect for data-heavy apps. Learn more.

   

10. audience-minutes

    8 2 45 2.4 C++

    generate statistics on the number of audience minutes your site is generating, and if readers make it to the end of your screeds

    

11. MkDocs

    9 123 20,396 6.8 Python

    Project documentation with Markdown.

    

12. MathJax

    10 63 10,448 0.0

    Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers

    

13. websocketd

    11 16 17,230 0.0 Go

    Turn any program that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a WebSocket server. Like inetd, but for WebSockets.

    

14. two.js

    12 8 8,465 9.2 JavaScript

    A renderer agnostic two-dimensional drawing api for the web.

    

15. three.js

    13 487 106,221 9.9 JavaScript

    JavaScript 3D Library.

    

16. PixiJS

    14 121 45,078 9.4 TypeScript

    The HTML5 Creation Engine: Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer.

    

17. Matomo

    15 157 20,488 9.8 PHP

    Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!

    

18. mariadb-docker

    16 32 822 8.4 Shell

    Docker Official Image packaging for MariaDB

    

19. jQuery

    17 183 59,510 7.9 JavaScript

    jQuery JavaScript Library

    

20. d3

    18 293 110,608 6.3 Shell

    Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada:

    

21. yunohost

    19 123 2,461 9.9 Python

    YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash.

    

22. InfluxDB

    www.influxdata.com featured

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

    

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