Personal App Template

Notes

Sometimes I have tiny little personal web apps I want to write but the overhead of starting a new project gets in the way. This cookiecutter template is designed to help me get over that.

• Django, Tailwind, HTMX
• Deployed to Fly
• Behind Tailscale, piggybacking on Tailscale auth

These end up being private apps -- no public interface, only accessible on my Tailnet. In other words this is sorta a replaecment for running things in a homelab or similar. A personal Intranet, if you will.

Since this is pretty specific to me and the way I want to write things, I'm unlikely to accept PRs. Feel free to ask first by opening and issue or emailing me or something! I don't want you to waste your time with a PR that I won't accept.

Excception: if there's something on my TODO list below, heck yeah I'll take a PR for it!

Deployment

Generate a tailscale auth key - ephemeral, reusable.

fly launch [--org jacobian-org]
fly secrets set TAILNET_DOMAIN=clever-sushi.ts.net
fly secrets set TAILSCALE_AUTHKEY=....
fly deploy

Admin access / permissions

Users are auto-created from Tailscale auth, but are created without perms. To add permissions:

fly console
>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> User.objects.filter(username="jacob").update(is_staff=True, is_superuser=True)

Making an app public

See fly.toml - there are lines commented out at the bottom that make things public. Think about whether to remove TailscaleAuthMiddleware or nah.