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Getting node.js and Express up and running on my... phone?

JavaScript Joel on November 27, 2018

I installed Termux from the Play store. It's free and doesn't require root access. Sorry but if you have an iPhone, go fish. The first thing I alw...

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sangowen • Nov 29 '18 • Edited

Termux is really fun! Just my 2 cents, I've installed sshd, mariadb and host a local gitea. With gitea I can push my dotfiles & personal wiki on my laptop into the repos as a backup through ssh.
Recently there is another promising project called UserLAnd. It even lets you apt install straight from debian/ubuntu repo without root. I managed to duplicate my i3wm & all of the terminal functionality I have in my laptop (urxvt,oh-my-zsh,compton,rofi,ranger...). Here's a screenshot of the TigerVNC session.
Hope everyone have fun playing with these awesome apps!

JavaScript Joel • Nov 29 '18

That's Awesome!!!

I definitely have just started to play with this but see so many possibilities.

I'm curious about your gitea + ssh to push files. I have another project where I need to sync files with a remote machine s and I have been looking into different tools to do this.

Could you describe your setup and how it works?

Cheers!

sangowen • Nov 30 '18 • Edited

This is the record I left in my wiki a few months ago. A small part of the instruction (mostly step 5 ~ 6) are SQL commands or instead only descriptive.

Setup:

install termux, sshd, go, make
- pkg install sshd golang-1.10 make
put public key into .ssh/authorized_keys
- cat ~/.ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
set GOPATH & put lib & GOPATH/bin into PATH
- export GOPATH="/data/data/com.termux/files/home/go/"
- export PATH="$PATH:/data/data/com.termux/files/home/go/src/github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata/"
- export PATH="$PATH:/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/go"
- export PATH=$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin
install mariadb
- pkg install mariadb
- mysql_install_db
maybe change root password for mariadb
- stop mysqld
- mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking &
- mysql -u root
- FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
- ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password';
- stop mysqld again
- restart
create gitea database
- CREATE DATABASE gitea DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
download & build gitea go package
- go get -d -u code.gitea.io/gitea
- cd $GOPATH/src/code.gitea.io/gitea
- make generate all
ssh into itself to get a valid username for gitea installation
- ssh 192.168.43.1 -p 8022
start gitea
- cd $GOPATH/src/code.gitea.io/gitea
- ./gitea web
open localhost:3000 with browser and install with mysqldb
create user, repo
currently I haven't fix git ssh path shown in UI, ssh can only access by:
- git remote add phone ssh://u0_a238@192.168.43.1:8022/data/data/com.termux/files/home/gitea-repositories/[gitea_username]/[reop_name].git
- git push -u phone master

Jose Albizures • Nov 28 '18

I did this some time ago and it's pretty cool! You also can activate your phone hotspot and connect another phone to that network, and see your changes there. I tried with react-create-app back then and the livereload makes this workflow a lot easier. Keep an eye to your node_module size though 🤣

Keziah • Nov 28 '18

Niice xD

JavaScript Joel • Nov 28 '18

That sounds cool. It would be interesting to setup remote debugging also.

Cristian Popescu • Nov 28 '18

This is pretty cool, I have to admit. I love the fact that you can test almost all your sudden ideas and put them into practice, there are always such ideas, as you state.
Ideas that if you don't get a quick test on, you will not be able to go through with you subway way home 😁.
I will defenetely try it and see what's up for installing.

Thank you.

JavaScript Joel • Nov 28 '18 • Edited

For sure. I love using it to run quick expressions like:

node -p "<expression>"

Keziah • Nov 28 '18

Thank's ! That's really useful

JavaScript Joel • Nov 28 '18

I use this all the time. Next, maybe I'll see if I can get a Docker container started on it.

Keziah • Nov 29 '18

Nice ! Gl