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Installation | Simple installation - takes about three minutes! | 10 | Getting started | Installation | https://codesandbox.io/embed/vigorous-firefly-80kq5?hidenavigation=1&theme=dark |
Simple installation - takes about three minutes!
Prerequisites
- Must haves
- Nice to haves
- MySQL / Postgres / SQL Server / SQLite Database
- Existing schemas can help to create APIs quickly.
- An example database schema can be found here.
Quick try
1-Click Deploy to Heroku
Before doing so, make sure you have a Heroku account. By default, an add-on Heroku Postgres will be used as meta database. You can see the connection string defined in DATABASE_URL
by navigating to Heroku App Settings and selecting Config Vars.
NPX
You can run below command if you need an interactive configuration.
npx create-nocodb-app
Preview:
Node Application
We provide a simple NodeJS Application for getting started.
git clone https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb-seed
cd nocodb-seed
npm install
npm start
Docker
If you are a Docker user, you may try this way!
docker run -d --name nocodb -p 8080:8080 nocodb/nocodb:latest
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:latest
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 \
-e NC_DB="pg://host.docker.internal:5432?u=root&p=password&d=d1" \
-e NC_AUTH_JWT_SECRET="569a1821-0a93-45e8-87ab-eb857f20a010" \
nocodb/nocodb:latest
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 \
-e NC_DB="mssql://host.docker.internal:1433?u=root&p=password&d=d1" \
-e NC_AUTH_JWT_SECRET="569a1821-0a93-45e8-87ab-eb857f20a010" \
nocodb/nocodb:latest
Tip 1: To persist data in docker you can mount volume at `/usr/app/data/` since 0.10.6. In older version mount at `/usr/src/app`. Otherwise your data will be lost after recreating the container.
Tip 2: If you plan to input some special characters, you may need to change the character set and collation yourself when creating the database. Please check out the examples for MySQL Docker.
Docker Compose
We provide different docker-compose.yml files under this directory. Here are some examples.
git clone https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb
cd nocodb/docker-compose/mysql
docker-compose up -d
git clone https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb
cd nocodb/docker-compose/pg
docker-compose up -d
git clone https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb
cd nocodb/docker-compose/mssql
docker-compose up -d
Tip 1: To persist data in docker you can mount volume at `/usr/app/data/` since 0.10.6. In older version mount at `/usr/src/app`.
Tip 2: If you plan to input some special characters, you may need to change the character set and collation yourself when creating the database. Please check out the examples for MySQL Docker Compose.
Production Setup
By default, SQLite is used for storing meta data. However, you can specify your own database. The connection params for this database can be specified in NC_DB
environment variable. Moreover, we also provide the below environment variables for configuration.
Environment variables
Variable | Mandatory | Comments | If absent | |
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AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID | No | For Litestream - S3 access key id | If Litestream is configured and NC_DB is not present. SQLite gets backed up to S3 | |
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY | No | For Litestream - S3 secret access key | If Litestream is configured and NC_DB is not present. SQLite gets backed up to S3 | |
AWS_BUCKET | No | For Litestream - S3 bucket | If Litestream is configured and NC_DB is not present. SQLite gets backed up to S3 | |
AWS_BUCKET_PATH | No | For Litestream - S3 bucket path (like folder within S3 bucket) | If Litestream is configured and NC_DB is not present. SQLite gets backed up to S3 | |
DB_QUERY_LIMIT_DEFAULT | No | Default pagination limit | 25 | |
DB_QUERY_LIMIT_MAX | No | Maximum allowed pagination limit | 100 | |
DB_QUERY_LIMIT_MIN | No | Minimum allowed pagination limit | 1 | |
DATABASE_URL | No | JDBC URL Format. Can be used instead of NC_DB. Used in 1-Click Heroku deployment | ||
DATABASE_URL_FILE | No | path to file containing JDBC URL Format. Can be used instead of NC_DB. Used in 1-Click Heroku deployment | ||
PORT | No | For setting app running port | 8080 |
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NC_DB | Yes | See our database URLs | A local SQLite will be created in root folder | |
NC_DB_JSON | Yes | Can be used instead of NC_DB and value should be valid knex connection JSON |
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NC_DB_JSON_FILE | Yes | Can be used instead of NC_DB and value should be a valid path to knex connection JSON |
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NC_DASHBOARD_URL | No | Custom dashboard url path | /dashboard |
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NC_TOOL_DIR | No | App directory to keep metadata and app related files | Defaults to current working directory. In docker maps to /usr/app/data/ for mounting volume. |
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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_JWT_EXPIRES_IN | No | JWT token expiry time | 10h |
|
NC_CONNECT_TO_EXTERNAL_DB_DISABLED | No | Disable Project creation with external database | ||
NC_INVITE_ONLY_SIGNUP | No | Allow users to signup only via invite url, value should be any non-empty string. | ||
NC_BACKEND_URL | No | Custom Backend URL | http://localhost:8080 will be used |
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NC_REQUEST_BODY_SIZE | No | Request body size limit | 1048576 |
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NC_EXPORT_MAX_TIMEOUT | No | After NC_EXPORT_MAX_TIMEOUT csv gets downloaded in batches | Default value 5000(in millisecond) will be used | |
NC_DISABLE_TELE | No | Disable telemetry | ||
NC_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID | No | Google client id to enable google authentication | ||
NC_GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET | No | Google client secret to enable google authentication | ||
NC_MIGRATIONS_DISABLED | No | Disable NocoDB migration | ||
NC_ONE_CLICK | No | Used for Heroku one-click deployment | ||
NC_MIN | No | If set to any non-empty string the default splash screen(initial welcome animation) and matrix screensaver will disable | ||
NC_SENTRY_DSN | No | For Sentry monitoring | ||
NC_DISABLE_ERR_REPORT | No | Disable error reporting | ||
NC_REDIS_URL | No | Custom Redis URL. Example: redis://:authpassword@127.0.0.1:6380/4 |
Meta data will be stored in memory | |
NC_DISABLE_CACHE | No | If it is set to true , then meta data will not be cached. |
false |
AWS ECS (Fargate)
Create ECS Cluster
aws ecs create-cluster \
--cluster-name <YOUR_ECS_CLUSTER>
Create Log group
aws logs create-log-group \
--log-group-name /ecs/<YOUR_APP_NAME>/<YOUR_CONTAINER_NAME>
Create ECS Task Definiton
Every time you create it, it will add a new version. If it is not existing, the version will be 1.
aws ecs register-task-definition \
--cli-input-json "file://./<YOUR_TASK_DEF_NAME>.json"
This json file defines the container specification. You can define secrets such as NC_DB and environment variables here.
Here's the sample Task Definition
{
"family": "nocodb-sample-task-def",
"networkMode": "awsvpc",
"containerDefinitions": [{
"name": "<YOUR_CONTAINER_NAME>",
"image": "nocodb/nocodb:latest",
"essential": true,
"logConfiguration": {
"logDriver": "awslogs",
"options": {
"awslogs-group": "/ecs/<YOUR_APP_NAME>/<YOUR_CONTAINER_NAME>",
"awslogs-region": "<YOUR_AWS_REGION>",
"awslogs-stream-prefix": "ecs"
}
},
"secrets": [{
"name": "<YOUR_SECRETS_NAME>",
"valueFrom": "<YOUR_SECRET_ARN>"
}],
"environment": [{
"name": "<YOUR_ENV_VARIABLE_NAME>",
"value": "<YOUR_ENV_VARIABLE_VALUE>"
}],
"portMappings": [{
"containerPort": 8080,
"hostPort": 8080,
"protocol": "tcp"
}]
}],
"requiresCompatibilities": [
"FARGATE"
],
"cpu": "256",
"memory": "512",
"executionRoleArn": "<YOUR_ECS_EXECUTION_ROLE_ARN>",
"taskRoleArn": "<YOUR_ECS_TASK_ROLE_ARN>"
}
Create ECS Service
aws ecs create-service \
--cluster <YOUR_ECS_CLUSTER> \
--service-name <YOUR_SERVICE_NAME> \
--task-definition <YOUR_TASK_DEF>:<YOUR_TASK_DEF_VERSION> \
--desired-count <DESIRED_COUNT> \
--launch-type "FARGATE" \
--platform-version <VERSION> \
--health-check-grace-period-seconds <GRACE_PERIOD_IN_SECOND> \
--network-configuration "awsvpcConfiguration={subnets=["<YOUR_SUBSETS>"], securityGroups=["<YOUR_SECURITY_GROUPS>"], assignPublicIp=ENABLED}" \
--load-balancer targetGroupArn=<TARGET_GROUP_ARN>,containerName=<CONTAINER_NAME>,containerPort=<YOUR_CONTAINER_PORT>
If your service fails to start, you may check the logs in ECS console or in Cloudwatch. Generally it fails due to the connection between ECS container and NC_DB. Make sure the security groups have the correct inbound and outbound rules.
Development Setup
If you want to modify the source code,
- Start the backend locally
cd packages/nocodb
npm install
npm run watch:run
- Start the frontend locally
cd packages/nc-gui
npm install
npm run dev
- Open
localhost:3000/dashboard
in browser
You can visit localhost:8000/dashboard in browser after starting the backend locally if you just want to modify the backend only.