A minimal web-based online clipboard. In case you have multiple machines you have to work on - and at least one of them is in a VPN, so none of the local IP solutions work.
Roll/deploy your own instance (everything you need is in here), or use the one hosted here: Clipster. Note that the latter one is also my playground. May go away at any time. Do not store stuff in here that you'd like to keep.
Web App built on Angular 9 with some material design components sprinkled in.
Firebase cloud functions. To maintain the database and handle file uploads
Simple rule file that defines what clients can and can not do in the database.
Easy enough, probably.
You'll need a Google account for that. Go to the Firebase console and create a new project. Then you need the command line tools for Firebase (here) and run
firebase login
Now you can deploy your stuff right from your command line!
You'll need to tell the web app to which Firebase app it should talk. That is done through the frontend/environments/firebaseConfig.ts files. Create that file, copy the content of the firebaseConfig.demo.ts file in there and replace all the dummy fields with the one you can see in the Firebase Console page when you tap on 'settings'.
Here, you'll need Angular 9 installed on your machine.
Once that is in place, open the frontend folder in your preferred shell and run
ng build --prod
That creates a new folder dist with the compiled web app, ready to be deployed.
Open the frontend folder and run
firebase init
When asked, choose 'use existing project', pick your already created Firebase project and only select the 'hosting' option.
Now we're all set and deploy the frontend! Run:
firebase deploy
From then on, your web-app should be reachable. You can find the URL in the hosting tab of the Firebase console. Probably not a lot will work, though, until cloud functions and rules are in place as well.
If you've already done everything for the frontend, this will be much easier. Just open the cloud_functions folder, and run:
firebase init: Similar to above but this time just pick the 'functions' optionfirebase deploy
Note: When you're planning on running this in a larger scale, you might want to change the region where you functions run in index.ts file away from Europe and closer to your users.
Same as with the cloud functions, just pick the 'Firebase' option this time ("Firebase", not Firestore)
Please! Suggestions, PRs, issues: All welcome!
Yes. Needed this tool quickly, so wrote it quickly. Also, I'm more of a native guy, so I'm probably using some of the web tech wrong.
Probably should have. Just used the tools at hand.
MIT. ("Do whatever")
Absolutely. User handling and data synchronization alone would probably be a bigger project than this is, though.