There are countless other bookmarking services, apps etc. on the internet. Some are excellent pieces of software and are much better than firefly. I doubt firefly will ever achieve to being as big as some of it's alternatives.
I first started thinking of writing something because I wanted to get comfortable with Flask, MongoDB, pytest and to have an excuse to use Tachyons CSS library. I decided that it should be a bookmarking app because I've been looking for a self-hosted bookmarking web-app with minimal user interface.
Now that it has started shaping up, it is a good time to set a set of abstract goals or direction for the project.
- Simple user interface.
- Highly configurable.
- Easy to install and upgrade.
- Fast. Should be very fast.
- Should emphasize on self-hosting.
- The code should be well tested.
- Should always be liberal when it comes to adding features that ease on organizing our daily digital life.
- Should always be conservataive when it comes to drastically changing the user interface.
- Should keep backwards compatibility.
- Should be oriented to tech-savvy and power users.
- Clone
- Run
pipenv install --dev --skip-lock - Run
FLASK_ENV=development FLASK_APP=firefly pipenv run flask run
- backup database (with encryption??)
- restore from backup