Hello, friends! Today, I’d like to share what I learned about sel-hosting my new flashcards. I discovered scholarsome. You’re already familiar with Quizizz and how to use it. I was looking for a self-hosted version and discovered Scholarsome, which is an open-source alternative. I’ve given it a try!

0. Introduction

I have to study with flashcards. I need to automate that workflow!

1. Have an url in my oclock alarm.
2. Click and then redirect to a random set of flashcard.
3. Take a breakfast.

1. Diferent hardware💥

As you know i really love raspberry pi, i want to self-host a study tool, but i don’t want to host in my main computer since that means keeping it powered on all the time. I prefer to selhosted on my raspberry pi. I was excited i use docker, but the configuration file was only setup for x86 hadware. I made a little change.

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    platform: "linux/amd64" # avoid

Making that change didn’t help: It still wasn’t working. I figure out the official code had some mistakes, so I submitted a pull request PR After that, it worked on my Raspberry Pi. Compiling a new version of the container for ARM architecture was challenging, but I hope Scholarsome can add this feature in the future. I will host my image in docker hub.

2. Learning the basic of flashcards🖊️

There is a very popular type of flashcard called Anki you can create cards in various formats, i found many tutorials . I decided to create my Anki cards using Python, using this library.

pip install genanki

If you want to see code. genanki.py.

3. Editing for Production 🚀

You need to add a secure connection and also decentralize your infraestructure, as it suggest some of these.

a) I didn’t set up s3 , you can use external storage with a Raspberry Pi.

b) I attemped to set up a fake SMTP server, After reading the code , i noticed that the signup process could break, so I chose to avoid modifying others code and use a fake SMTP instead. The other option was to use a paid service, but at this moment, I just want to avoid extra costs. I used smtp4dev.

c) fo secure connection, I created local ertificates SSL keysand encoded in base64, this step can very more advanced. I don’t disagree with scholarsome.

It’s essential to configure my Traefik correctly; it’s quite simple:

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........more code
    networks:
      - traefik_apps
    labels:
      - traefik.http.routers.schoolsome.rule=Host(`schoolsome.rpi.mlibia.xyz`)
      - traefik.http.services.schoolsome.loadbalancer.server.port=8081
      - traefik.enable=true
networks:
  traefik_apps:
    external: true
........more code

full code it’s here docker.

Something Special: My Clock Alarm Update

I recently made an exciting change to my clock alarm. I added a link that, when clicked, redirectme to random set of cards of Scholarsome. It took me a bit of time to implement this feature, as I was familiar with the backend framework of the Scholarsome but i had limited experience with the frontend framework. After spending several hours on it, I successfully added the functionality to redirect to random sets. It was a rewarding challenge!. The full code is here.

What I Learned

1. I learned about monolithic web application structures.
2. I started into Angular wordl, even though frontend development isn’t my favorite. My experience is primarily with ReactJS.
3. I improve my skills with Traefik through practice.

Off topic ⭐

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