Moon Base

Property management for the Moon homestead (Eau Claire, WI). A single place to track the food forest, household inventory, and recurring upkeep — built as a Next.js 14 + Prisma + Postgres app, deployed self-hosted on the home NAS.

Live at http://192.168.0.5:8053.

Modules

• Garden — plant registry with care/harvest/observation logs, plant groups, reusable plant types (the "kind" record: care notes, sun/water, bloom & harvest months, pet toxicity), Wikipedia photos, and plants placed on the shared location tree.
• Inventory — durable items that nest (a toolbox holds the tools inside it), with labels, photos + manuals/receipts/warranty docs, value & warranty tracking (with expiry warnings), serial/brand, a sold record, and custom fields (e.g. a vehicle's VIN). Schedule recurring maintenance per item. Import straight from HomeBox via CSV. Shares the same location spine as the garden.
• Animals — pets & livestock with their own logs (feeding, vet, weight, meds) and auto-computed age, placed on the shared location tree; reminders can be linked to an animal.
• Locations — manage the whole place tree (areas, buildings, rooms, storage), nested as deep as you like; everything (plants, items, animals) lives here.
• Reminders — one-off or recurring tasks (every N days / monthly / yearly), optionally linked to a plant, item, or animal.
• REST API (/api/v1/*) — personal access tokens with per-scope permissions (read plants, log harvests, …) for phone shortcuts, Home Assistant, and automation.
• Suggestions — in-app feedback that files issues to Gitea (@otm/account-panel).
• Backup & Restore — download/restore the whole dataset as a zip (admin only).
• Self-update — admins get a "Pull & rebuild" button that updates the running app to the latest pushed version (see Deploy).

Tech

Next.js 14 (App Router) · Prisma · PostgreSQL · NextAuth (credentials) · Tailwind + shadcn/ui · Docker Compose.

Local dev

npm install
cp .env.example .env          # fill in DATABASE_URL + NEXTAUTH_SECRET
npx prisma migrate deploy     # schema + provisions bonna/tony accounts
npm run db:seed               # optional demo data (SEED_MODE=minimal for accounts only)
npm run dev                   # http://localhost:3000

After schema edits: npx prisma generate then restart. Data backfills for the location/plant-type refactors: npm run db:backfill-locations, npm run db:backfill-plant-types.

Auth / first run

Username or email login. Provisioned accounts bonna / tony (role ADMIN) ship with the default password moonbase! and mustChangePassword=true — the app forces a password change on first sign-in.

Deploy

The NAS appdata (/mnt/user/appdata/moonbase) is a git checkout of this repo. Two ways to ship a change:

1. In-app (admins): Settings → Updates → Pull & rebuild. A privileged updater sidecar runs git pull && docker compose up -d --build app and the UI reloads on the new version.
2. Manual:

   git push origin master
   ssh root@192.168.0.5 'cd /mnt/user/appdata/moonbase && git pull && docker compose up -d --build'
   

Do not rsync over the appdata dir — it would fight the checkout. Secrets (NEXTAUTH_SECRET, GITEA_TOKEN, UPDATER_SECRET) live in a gitignored host .env next to the compose file, never committed. Migrations apply automatically on container start. Full deploy walkthrough: docs/git-deploy-guide.md.

Conventions

Every commit bumps APP_VERSION (src/lib/version.ts) + a plain-English entry in src/lib/changelog.ts (written for Bonna, shown in the footer). AuditEvent on every mutation. Soft-delete via active=false. Pure logic in src/lib/* with colocated tests; API routes stay thin. Repo on Gitea: bonna61/Moonbase.