nocodb/README.md

NocoDB
✨ The Open Source Airtable Alternative ✨

Turns any MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite & MariaDB into a smart-spreadsheet.

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Quick try

1-Click Deploy

Heroku

Railway

Using Docker

docker run -d --name nocodb -p 8080:8080 nocodb/nocodb

Using Npm

npx create-nocodb-app

Using Git

git clone https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb-seed
cd nocodb-seed
npm install
npm start

GUI

Access Dashboard using : http://localhost:8080/dashboard

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Screenshots

Features

Rich Spreadsheet Interface

• ⚡  Search, sort, filter, hide columns with uber ease
• ⚡  Create Views : Grid, Gallery, Kanban, Gantt, Form
• ⚡  Share Views : public & password protected
• ⚡  Personal & locked Views
• ⚡  Upload images to cells (Works with S3, Minio, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, Linode, OVH, BackBlaze)!!
• ⚡  Roles : Owner, Creator, Editor, Commenter, Viewer, Commenter, Custom Roles.
• ⚡  Access Control : Fine-grained access control even at database, table & column level.

App Store for workflow automations :

• ⚡  Chat : Microsoft Teams, Slack, Discord, Mattermost
• ⚡  Email : SMTP, SES, Mailchimp
• ⚡  SMS : Twilio
• ⚡  Whatsapp
• ⚡  Any 3rd Party APIs

Programmatic API access via :

• ⚡  REST APIs (Swagger)
• ⚡  GraphQL APIs.
• ⚡  Includes JWT Authentication & Social Auth
• ⚡  API tokens to integrate with Zapier, Integromat.

Production Setup

NocoDB requires a database to store metadata of spreadsheets views and external databases. And connection params for this database can be specified in NC_DB environment variable.

Docker

Example MySQL

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 \
    -e NC_DB="mysql2://host.docker.internal:3306?u=root&p=password&d=d1" \
    -e NC_AUTH_JWT_SECRET="569a1821-0a93-45e8-87ab-eb857f20a010" \
    nocodb/nocodb

Example Postgres

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 \
    -e NC_DB="pg://host:port?u=user&p=password&d=database" \
    -e NC_AUTH_JWT_SECRET="569a1821-0a93-45e8-87ab-eb857f20a010" \
    nocodb/nocodb

Example SQL Server

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 \
    -e NC_DB="mssql://host:port?u=user&p=password&d=database" \
    -e NC_AUTH_JWT_SECRET="569a1821-0a93-45e8-87ab-eb857f20a010" \
    nocodb/nocodb

Docker Compose

git clone https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb
cd docker-compose
cd mysql or pg or mssql
docker-compose up

Environment variables

Variable	Mandatory	Comments	If absent
NC_DB	Yes	See our database URLs	A local SQLite will be created in root folder
DATABASE_URL	No	JDBC URL Format. Can be used instead of NC_DB. Used in 1-Click Heroku deployment
NC_PUBLIC_URL	Yes	Used for sending Email invitations	Best guess from http request params
NC_AUTH_JWT_SECRET	Yes	JWT secret used for auth and storing other secrets	A Random secret will be generated
NC_SENTRY_DSN	No	For Sentry monitoring
NC_CONNECT_TO_EXTERNAL_DB_DISABLED	No	Disable Project creation with external database
NC_DISABLE_TELE	No	Disable telemetry
NC_BACKEND_URL	No	Custom Backend URL	http://localhost:8080 will be used

Running locally

git clone https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb
cd nocodb

# run backend
cd packages/nocodb
npm install
npm run watch:run

# open localhost:8080/dashboard in browser

# run frontend 
cd packages/nc-gui
npm install
npm run dev

# open localhost:3000/dashboard in browser

Changes made to code automatically restart.

Contributing

• Please take a look at ./contribute/HowToApplyLicense.md
• Ignore adding headers for .json or .md or .yml

🎯 Why are we building this ?

Most internet businesses equip themselves with either spreadsheet or a database to solve their business needs. Spreadsheets are used by a Billion+ humans collaboratively every single day. However, we are way off working at similar speeds on databases which are way more powerful tools when it comes to computing. Attempts to solve this with SaaS offerings has meant horrible access controls, vendor lockin, data lockin, abrupt price changes & most importantly a glass ceiling on what's possible in future.

❤ Our Mission :

Our mission is to provide the most powerful no-code interface for databases which is open source to every single internet business in the world. This would not only democratise access to a powerful computing tool but also bring forth a billion+ people who will have radical tinkering-and-building abilities on internet.

Contributors : 🌻🌻🌻🐝🐝

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Has Many - Schema

• Create

  • Create a new relation

    • Create foreign key in child table
    • Update metadata

    • GUI

  • Existing

    • We need to show existing relation
    • Update metadata

• Delete

  • Delete virtual field
  • Delete virtual field and relation

• HasMany Lookup column

  • Rendering
  • Adding new child
    • Associate an existing child
    • Create and add
  • Pagination
  • Remove child