Next Media

Next Media is a media management system (similar to Jellyfin, Emby, Plex).

Tech Stack

• Monorepo managed with pnpm workspaces
• Frontend: React + Vite + TanStack Router/Query + Tailwind CSS
• Backend: Hono (Node) with base path /api
• Database: SQLite via Drizzle ORM
• Auth: better-auth
• UI: shadcn-ui
• Queue: bullmq
• Nginx: serves built frontend and proxies /api to backend
• Redis: for caching/queue (via Docker)
• Process manager: PM2 for local multi-service run

Getting Started

Follow these steps to run the project locally:

1. Start infrastructure (Redis and Nginx) using Docker Compose

   docker compose up -d

2. Install dependencies at the repo root

   pnpm install

3. Initialize the database

   pnpm run db:init

4. Build and start the apps with PM2

   pnpm run start