Deck

Deck is a kanban style organization tool aimed at personal planning and project organization for teams integrated with Nextcloud.

• Add your tasks to cards and put them in order
• Write down additional notes in markdown
• Assign labels for even better organization
• Share with your team, friends or family
• Integrates with the Circles app!
• Attach files and embed them in your markdown description
• Discuss with your team using comments
• Keep track of changes in the activity stream
• Get your project organized

Mobile apps

• Nextcloud Deck app for Android - It is available in F-Droid and the Google Play Store

3rd-Party Integrations

• trello-to-deck - Migrates cards from Trello
• mail2deck - Provides an "email in" solution
• A-deck - Chrome Extension that allows to create new card in selected stack based on current tab

Installation/Update

This app is supposed to work on the two latest Nextcloud versions.

Install latest release

You can download and install the latest release from the Nextcloud app store

Install from git

If you want to run the latest development version from git source, you need to clone the repo to your apps folder:

git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/deck.git
cd deck
make install-deps
make build

Please make sure you have installed the following dependencies: make, which, tar, npm, curl, composer

Install the nightly builds

Instead of setting everything up manually, you can just download the nightly build instead. These builds are updated every 24 hours, and are pre-configured with all the needed dependencies.

Performance limitations

Deck is not yet ready for intensive usage. A lot of database queries are generated when the number of boards, cards and attachments is high. For example, a user having access to 13 boards, with each board having on average 100 cards, and each card having on average 5 attachments, would generate 6500 database queries when doing the file related queries which would increase the page loading time significantly.

Improvements on Nextcloud server and Deck itself will improve the situation.

Developing

Nextcloud environment

You need to setup a development environment of the current nextcloud version. You can also alternatively install & run the nextcloud docker container. After the finished installation, you can clone the deck project directly in the /[nextcloud-docker-dev-dir]/workspace/server/apps/ folder.

PHP

Nothing to prepare, just dig into the code.

JavaScript

This requires at least Node 16 and npm 7 to be installed.

Deck requires running a make build-js to install npm dependencies and build the JavaScript code using webpack. While developing you can also use make watch to rebuild everytime the code changes.

Hot reloading

Enable debug mode in your config.php 'debug' => true,

Without SSL:

npx webpack-dev-server --config webpack.hot.js \
    --public localhost:3000 \
    --output-public-path 'http://localhost:3000/js/'

With SSL:

npx webpack-dev-server --config webpack.dev.js --https \
	--cert ~/repos/nextcloud/nc-dev/data/ssl/nextcloud.local.crt \
    --key ~/repos/nextcloud/nc-dev/data/ssl/nextcloud.local.key \
    --public nextcloud.local:3000 \
    --output-public-path 'https://nextcloud.local:3000/js/'

Running tests

You can use the provided Makefile to run all tests by using:

make test

Documentation

The documentation for our REST API can be found at https://deck.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API/

Contribution Guidelines

Please read the Code of Conduct. This document offers some guidance to ensure Nextcloud participants can cooperate effectively in a positive and inspiring atmosphere, and to explain how together we can strengthen and support each other.

For more information please review the guidelines for contributing to this repository.

Apply a license

All contributions to this repository are considered to be licensed under the GNU AGPLv3 or any later version.

Contributors to the Deck app retain their copyright. Therefore we recommend to add following line to the header of a file, if you changed it substantially:

@copyright Copyright (c) <year>, <your name> (<your email address>)

For further information on how to add or update the license header correctly please have a look at our licensing HowTo.

Sign your work

We use the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) as a additional safeguard for the Nextcloud project. This is a well established and widely used mechanism to assure contributors have confirmed their right to license their contribution under the project's license. Please read developer-certificate-of-origin. If you can certify it, then just add a line to every git commit message:

  Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <[email protected]>

Use your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions). If you set your user.name and user.email git configs, you can sign your commit automatically with git commit -s. You can also use git aliases like git config --global alias.ci 'commit -s'. Now you can commit with git ci and the commit will be signed.