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Introduction to the backend
The backend is essentially just an account server. It handles user accounts, syncing, and other account related features.
Recommended Community Backend
To keep consistency and compatibility between different instances our partner, lonelil, has kindly offered to host a movie-web backend with a copy of the original data from the now unavailable movie-web.app backend. You can access this backend at: https://mw-backend.lonelil.com
and https://mw-backend.lonelil.ru
Meaning users do not have to set up a new account; you can use your previous passphrase from movie-web, and all of your data will be there!
Metrics
The backend exposes an endpoint for Prometheus metrics{target="_blank"} which allows you to keep track of the backend more easily, it can be accessed on /metrics
.
To view these metrics properly, you'll need to use an analytics program like Grafana{target="_blank"}, which can visualize logs from Prometheus{target="_blank"}.
Security
Optionally, there are a few security settings:
- Recaptcha support, the server can verify Recaptcha v3 tokens on register and login.
- Ratelimits, some expensive endpoints have ratelimits, but only when enabled. This requires an additional redis connection.
Migrations
Migrations help keep your database schema in sync with everyone else. To run migrations, you can use the pnpm migration:up
command inside the docker container or in your command-line if you're not using docker.
Alternatively, you can enable the postgres.migrateOnBoot
variable and it will be automatically migrated on boot.