Digistorm

Digistorm is an online application for creating collaborative surveys, questionnaires, brainstorming sessions, and word clouds.

For word cloud display, Digistorm uses Vue Wordcloud, published under the MIT license.

This project is published under the GNU AGPLv3 license. Except for Roboto Slab and Material Icons fonts (Apache License Version 2.0) and Mona Sans Expanded font (SIL Open Font License 1.1).

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v18 or higher recommended)
• npm
• Redis database

Installation

npm install

Development Server (localhost:3000)

npm run dev

Production Build and Server

npm run prod

Using PM2

npm run build
pm2 start ecosystem.config.cjs --env production

Using Docker

docker compose up -d

Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the project root directory with the following variables:

Variable	Description	Default
DOMAIN	Protocol + domain (e.g., https://digistorm.app) - only used in production	-
PORT	Local server port	3000
REVERSE_PROXY	Use a reverse proxy (0 or 1)	0
NODE_CLUSTER	Use Node.js cluster mode (0 or 1)	0
EARLY_HINTS	Enable server early hints and 103 status code (0 or 1)	0
DB_HOST	Redis database server IP address	-
DB_PWD	Redis database password	-
DB_PORT	Redis database port	6379
SESSION_KEY	Express Session secret key	-
SESSION_DURATION	User session duration in milliseconds	-
EMAIL_HOST	SMTP host for sending emails	-
EMAIL_ADDRESS	Email address for sending emails	-
EMAIL_PASSWORD	Email account password	-
EMAIL_PORT	SMTP port	-
EMAIL_SECURE	Use secure connection (true or false)	-
AUTHORIZED_DOMAINS	Authorized domains for server API (e.g., ladigitale.dev,example.com)	*
ADMIN_PASSWORD	Password for /admin page access	-
VITE_UPLOAD_LIMIT	Maximum file upload size in MB	5
VITE_STORAGE	File storage type (fs or s3)	fs
VITE_S3_PUBLIC_LINK	Public link to S3 object container contents	-
S3_SERVER_TYPE	S3 server type (aws or minio)	aws
S3_ENDPOINT	S3 endpoint URL	-
S3_ACCESS_KEY	S3 access key	-
S3_SECRET_KEY	S3 secret access key	-
S3_REGION	S3 bucket region	-
S3_BUCKET	S3 bucket name	-
S3_MAX_SOCKETS	Maximum sockets for S3 client httpsAgent	-
ENCRYPTION_KEY	Key to decrypt Digidrive data (only needed if Digidrive is used)	-
VITE_LEGAL_TERMS_LINK	Link to legal terms page	-

Tech Stack

• Frontend: Vue.js 3 with Vike (SSR framework)
• Backend: Node.js with Express
• Database: Redis

Demo

https://digistorm.app

Credits

• Spanish translation by Fernando S. Delgado Trujillo (https://gitlab.com/fersdt)
• Italian translation by Paolo Mauri (https://gitlab.com/maupao) and @nilocram (Roberto Marcolin)

Support the Original Project

• Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/ladigitale
• Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/ladigitale/

Original Repository

This is a fork of the original project hosted at: https://codeberg.org/ladigitale/digistorm