This is your life

This repo contains a web application to remember of special moments of your life as a photo diary. You can create so called lifepoints on a map and link them to a photo with a description.

Motivation

I wrote this app for my wife's birthday so that all of her friends could create lifepoints of moments they shared with each other. In the end, I merged all data, resulting in the following map:

There are other apps out there doing basically the same, but most of them are using some sort of not E2E-encrypted cloud storage which I didn't want to use due to privacy concerns. Therefore, this app solely stores its data locally.

Technology

The app is based on the following technologies and frameworks:

• ASP.NET Core Server-side Blazor (application and UI logic)
• SQLite (persistence)
• Leaflet (map content)

User files

As mentioned before, all data are stored locally in an application's subfolder data (e. g. C:\temp\ThisIsYourLife\data). It contains the following files and folders:

• user.json → contains the username that will be entered on application startup and a unique user ID.
• db → contains the SQLite database ThisIsYourLife.db with the created lifepoints.
• images\<<ID>> → contains the uploaded and resized photos.
• logs → contains log files ThisIsYourLife<<date>>.log.

Local development

Since it is a regular .NET application, it can be run via dotnet run or using an IDE. The SQLite database will be created automatically in the application directory.

Deployment

The app is deployed both as a self-contained executable and the Docker image mu88/thisisyourlife.

The application's URL is http://localhost:5000/thisIsYourLife.

Self-contained executable

Use the following command to generate the app:

dotnet publish src/WebApp/WebApp.csproj -r win-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:Configuration=Release --self-contained true

Docker

Use the following command to generate the Docker image:

docker build -f ./src/WebApp/Dockerfile -t thisisyourlife:latest .

And for running the Docker container:

docker run -d -p 5000:80 --name thisisyourlife thisisyourlife:latest

App configuration

Within appsettings.json, the following app parameters can be controlled:

• CanDelete → Boolean parameter indicating whether lifepoints can be deleted.

Supported platforms

The app is running on my Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (Raspberry Pi OS x64) using Docker and on Windows using the self-contained executable. Since it does not contain any platform-specific code, it can run on any platform that supports .NET.

There is a little user manual, written in German.