Crypta
(n.) an underground vault or chamber, especially one beneath a church that is
used as a burial place.
IMPORTANT: Crypta has its second version available at
Cryptaa. This repostory exists for
archival purposes only.
Or a personal vault for code snippets (or text) storing, with encryption to
handle sensitive data. Latest development version at:
https://thanhnguyen2187.github.io/crypta/.
Features
- Optimized for fast copying and pasting
- In-memory encryption/decryption
- Fully local-first/offline-first (powered by OPFS; one BIG WARNING: OPFS gets
wiped out on Lighthouse benchmarking, so don't store anything sensitive here yet)
- Tagging and searching
- Self-hosted backend server (WIP)
- PWA (WIP)
Why?
- Notion would be a good all-purpose note-taking tool, but it is not that
optimized for my workflow: quickly copying and pasting code snippets for later
reusing. There is no self-hosting backend either.
- Evernote does have text encryption/decryption, but it does not look that good.
Plus, the data is synchronized to their server, similar to Notion.
- massCode is quite good, but being an Electron application and using a single
JSON file as database means I cannot access it from the mobile, which is quite
crucial since I also want to take note from my phone sometimes. There is no tool
for encryption/decryption either.
Or NIH syndrome kicked in and I want to use that chance to polish my own skills
a bit.
Development
- Make sure that you have
node and yarn ready:
node --version
# v18.16.1
yarn --version
# 1.22.19
yarn install
- Start the development server:
yarn dev
Deployment
yarn build
The built files should be available in a folder named build/. You are free to
copy this somewhere else and serve it as a static website using a web server
like Nginx or Caddy.
BEWARE: the data is stored within the browser, so make sure to back up regularly
before synchronization is implemented.
- Preview (see how the built files work):
yarn preview
Or you can move to the folder and try serving it yourself:
python -m http.server