Deployment

Deploying NovaCrate

NovaCrate is a Next.js application that must be hosted on a server in order to be accessible from a web browser. You can either use one of the hosted versions on kit-data-manager.github.io or at novacrate.datamanager.kit.edu, but you can also host an instance of NovaCrate yourself. Note that up to now (v1.3.1) there are no configurable server-side capabilities to NovaCrate, so there will be no functional difference between the officially hosted versions and a custom one.

Docker

To run NovaCrate with Docker, you can simply use the official NovaCrate image from the GitHub Container Registry: docker pull ghcr.io/kit-data-manager/novacrate:latest. NovaCrate is reachable on port 3000.

You can also extend the Dockerfile in this repository to adjust the image.

Manual

You can easily run NovaCrate without Docker on any modern operating system where Node.js 20+ is installed. Simply clone the repository and run the following commands:

npm install
npm run build
npm run start

NovaCrate is then accessible on port 3000.