Plant-it

[Still under "initial" development, some features may be unstable or change in the future, although database schemas should be stable. A first release version is planned to be packed soon].

Plant-it is a self-hosted gardening companion app.
Useful for keeping track of plant care, receiving notifications about when to water plants, uploading plant images, and more.

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Why? • Features highlights • Quickstart • Contribute

Why?

Plant-it is a gardening companion app that helps you take care of your plants.

It does not recommend you about which action to take, instead it is designed to logs the activity you are doing. This is on purpose, I strongly believe that the only one in charge of know when to water your plants, when to fertilize them, etc. is you (with the help of multiple online sources).

Plant-it helps you remember the last time you did a treatment of your plants, which plants you have, collects photos of your plants, and notify you about time passed since last action on them.

Features highlight

• Add existing plants using Trefle API or user created plants to your collection
• Log events like watering, fertilizing, biostimulating, etc. for your plants
• View all the logged events, filtering by plant and event type
• Upload photos of your plants
• Set reminder for some actions on your plants (e.g. notify if not watered every 4 days)

Take a look at the roadmap for a more detailed list of future features and enhancements.

Quickstart

Installing Plant-it is pretty straight forward, in order to do so follow these steps:

1. Create a folder where you want to place all Plant-it related files.
2. Inside that folder, create the following files:
   • docker-compose.yml:

   version: "3"
   name: plant-it
   services:
     backend:
       image: msdeluise/plant-it-backend:latest
       env_file: backend.env
       depends_on:
         - db
         - cache
       restart: unless-stopped
       volumes:
         - "./upload-dir:/upload-dir"
         - "certs:/certificates"
       ports:
         - "8080:8080"
   
     db:
       image: mysql:8.0
       restart: always
       env_file: backend.env
       volumes:
         - "./db:/var/lib/mysql"
   
     cache:
       image: redis:7.2.1
       restart: always
   
     frontend:
       image: msdeluise/plant-it-frontend:latest
       env_file: frontend.env
       links:
         - backend
       ports:
         - "3000:3000"
       volumes:
         - "certs:/certificates"
   volumes:
     certs:
       driver: local
       driver_opts:
         type: none
         o: bind
         device: ./certificates

   • backend.env:

   #
   # DB
   #
   MYSQL_HOST=db
   MYSQL_PORT=3306
   MYSQL_USERNAME=root
   MYSQL_PSW=root
   MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root
   MYSQL_DATABASE=bootdb
   
   #
   # JWT
   #
   JWT_SECRET=putTheSecretHere
   JWT_EXP=1
   
   #
   # Server config
   #
   USERS_LIMIT=-1
   UPLOAD_DIR=/upload-dir
   API_PORT=8080
   TREFLE_KEY=
   ALLOWED_ORIGINS=*
   LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG
   UPDATE_EXISTING=false
   
   #
   # Cache
   #
   CACHE_TTL=86400
   CACHE_HOST=cache
   CACHE_PORT=6379
   
   #
   # SSL
   #
   SSL_ENABLED=false
   CERTIFICATE_PATH=/certificates/

   • frontend.env:

   PORT=3000
   API_URL=http://localhost:8080/api
   WAIT_TIMEOUT=10000
   CACHE_TTL_DAYS=7
   BROWSER=none
   SSL_ENABLED=false
   CERTIFICATE_PATH=/certificates/

3. Run the docker compose file (docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d), then the service will be available at localhost:3000, while the REST API will be available at localhost:8080/api (localhost:8080/api/swagger-ui/index.html for the documentation of them).

Take a look at the documentation in order to understand the available configurations and let the service be available even from another machine.

Contribute

Feel free to contribute and help improve the repo.

Bug Report, Feature Request and Question

You can submit any of this in the issues section of the repository. Chose the right template and then fill the required info.

Feature development

Let's discuss first possible solutions for the development before start working on that, please open a feature request issue.

How to contribute

If you want to make some changes and test them locally take a look at the documentation.