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This is the main project to run Actual, a local-first personal finance tool. It comes with the latest version of Actual, and a server to persist changes and make data available across all devices.
Running
It's very easy to get started. Clone this repo, install deps, and start it:
git clone https://github.com/actualbudget/actual-server.git
cd actual-server
yarn install
yarn start
Go to https://localhost:5006 in your browser and you'll see Actual.
Deploying
You should deploy your server so it's always running. We recommend fly.io which makes it incredibly easy and provides a free plan.
Create an account. Once you see the credit card page, you don't actually have to enter it. Just navigate to https://fly.io/apps to see the dashboard.
Next, install the flyctl utility. Run flyctl auth login to sign into your account.
Now, run flyctl launch from actual-server. You should have a running app now!
Whenever you want to update Actual, update the versions of @actual-app/api and @actual-app/web in package.json and run flyctl deploy.
Note: if you don't want to use fly, we still provide a Dockerfile to build the app so it should work anywhere that can compile a docker image.
Non-technical users
We are looking into a feature for one-button click click deployment of Actual. This will reduce the friction for people not as comfortable with the command line.