Original project's overview

Parabol is an open-source application for running the agile meetings Team Retrospective, Sprint Poker™ and Team Check-in. You may try a single-player demo of the latest implementation of Parabol (no login creation required) at: https://parabol.co/retro-demo

Make sure to check the original project at https://github.com/ParabolInc/parabol for more information about them and their continous work.

Parabol Lightweight overview

Yet another fork in the pool of forks, but this one aims to work well on a Raspberry Pi 4 and lose some (hopefully more in the future) weight. DietPi was my choice for OS to run and test on but anything (especially Debian based) should work (with enough patience and tinkering).

Installation

# Install Node with nvm
$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.1/install.sh | bash
source /root/.bashrc
nvm install 16.14.0

# Install Yarn with yvm
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tophat/yvm/master/scripts/install.js | node
source /root/.yvm/yvm.sh
yvm install

# Install dependencies
apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release make cmake gcc g++ -y
apt-get install libvips-dev --no-install-recommends -y

# Install docker and its dependencies
apt-get remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc
mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin -y

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/luchihoratiu/parabol-lightweight.git
cd parabol-lightweight

# Create .env settings (You shouldn't need to change anything but feel free)
cp .env.lightweight .env

# Prepare environment
# Expect many errors the first time but running all of them twice solves all the issues
# (Order of commands might be wrong but couldn't find the correct one yet)
yarn
yarn db:start
yarn install
yarn update-schema
yarn relay
yarn db:start
yarn db:migrate
yarn pg:migrate up
yarn db:migrate up
yarn pg:build
yarn build

# Start application
yarn start

Optional

Run it as a service

cd /etc/systemd/system
nano parabol.service

# Add following lines and adapt paths/user to match yours
[Unit]
Description=Parabol
 
[Service]
User=root
WorkingDirectory=/root/parabol-lightweight
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'source /root/.nvm/nvm.sh && source /root/.yvm/yvm.sh && cd /root/parabol-ligthweight && yarn db:start && yarn start'

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Let systemctl know of your changes:

# Reload
systemctl daemon-reload

# Enable
systemctl enable parabol

# Start
systemctl start parabol

# Check status
systemctl status parabol

Overclock CPU

WARNING - Use at your own risk

echo "over_voltage=11" >> /boot/config.txt
echo "arm_freq=2300" >> /boot/config.txt
echo "arm_freq_min=2300" >> /boot/config.txt
echo "current_limit_override=1" >> /boot/config.txt
echo "force_turbo=1" >> /boot/config.txt

WARNING - Use at your own risk

Useful links:

Check https://dietpi.com/docs/usage/#how-to-do-an-automatic-base-installation-at-first-boot for how to use files from .dietpi folder.