I am looking to adapt kiri art for my own project, but I am unsure how to swap Gongo for some other backend/DB. But it looks like there is also MongoDB references in the code.
Anyone can share how Gongo works with external MongoDB?
Any quick steps on how to swap out Gongo and Mongo for something like Postgres/Supabase? Do I need to swap out Gongo?
I have manged to setup depth2img for diffusers-api and added it as a model, but am not sure how to manage user and credits. (gaddic if you see this, I’m the noob that ask about transformers for docker, thanks for the help there!)
Ok, so, a little history is required here. Originally the main part of this entire project was the open source webui. It was hard to promote without a live demo, and since GPU costs, had to create a credit system from that. That site ended up becoming the most popular part of the whole project, and grew very quickly, with a lot of development coming at the expense of ensuring the webui could still be run easily outside of kiri.art.
I actually plan to spend some time separating out all the kiri-specific parts from the webui, and to release it as an independent project called diffusers-webui. Since it will still be used by the kiri site, it will have a number of hooks that kiri and other projects will be able to tap into to customize it. That’s the good news. The bad news is that this is months away, I won’t even be able to start this work until a large number of more important and urgent tasks are completed (around docker-diffusers-api and kiri.art devops).
So in the meantime, let me answer you about Gongo.
GongoJS is client-side database that runs inside the browser, and is offline-first, reactive, and comes with react hooks. There is also code to synchronize the client-side databases from server “publications” - that currently runs against mongo only but a lot of the logic is already there to support other database backends. Having said all that, this was just something I worked on in my spare time over the last few years. It’s all open source but I can’t really in good conscious recommend for anyone else to use it, as there are a lot of gotchas that require fairly deep understanding of the code
So:
The quickest way to get up and running is to continue using Gongo with a MongoDB backend. Since all the code is there already, it shouldn’t be hard to adapt; but there may be some long-term maintainability issues
Set MONGO_URL to the mongo URI (mongodb.com offers a generous free plan).
For local development, set env var REQUIRE_REGISTRATION=1
See the examples for google/twitter/github authentication. Big undocumented gotcha, after any change to this info (GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID, etc, env vars), you must call http://mysite.com/api/gongoAuth?type=setup to update the database with these values.
That should be enough to get up and running, but unfortunately, I won’t really be able to offer any support with the Gongo stuff… although I think it’s a great project which in theory I’d love to get to production state for everyone, I just don’t have any time to dedicate to it
The most sustainable option is to wait for the kiri / webui refactor and put in your own logic, but this is a few months away at least.
So, help this somewhat verbose answer sheds some light to the situation, and sorry I don’t have a quick easy answer for something immediate.
Hey @gadicc , thanks for the great and detailed answer, I really appreciate the time you spend on these and for the reply! Do focus on what you want to do, I will figure something out
