Opening a pond landed on whatever sorted first in the sidebar — stable, but a rule nobody could see, and one whose target moved as soon as someone added a page ahead of it. New ponds landed on the empty-pond hint instead of anything useful. - `startPageId` joins the pond settings. No migration: `Pond.settings` is already jsonb. It stores an id, not a slug, so renaming or moving the page keeps it working. - `PondHomePage` prefers it, but only when the page is in this user's page list. That list already holds just what they may see, so a start page hidden by a page-scoped grant — or trashed — falls back silently instead of landing them on a 404, and it costs no extra request. - Both creation paths give the pond a start page, titled from the creator's stored locale. It happens after the creating transaction commits: the owner's grant is written inside it and permissions cache per pond, so creating the page any earlier would ask about rights the grant has not published yet. A failure is logged, not fatal — a pond without a start page still works. `PagesModule` imported `PondsModule` without using it. Removing that vestigial edge let PondsModule depend on PagesModule in the honest direction instead of tying the two together with forwardRef. Every pond created through the api now owns a page, which broke eight suites whose teardown deleted ponds directly — `Page.pond` deliberately has no cascade, because a real purge removes contents explicitly and audits it. A shared `deletePondsWhere` helper deletes pages first. Two tests that counted pages now account for the start page rather than pretending the pond began empty. |
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Dorfteich
Dorfteich is an open-source wiki system built around ponds (German: Teiche) — self-contained wiki spaces that people and teams organize freely with hierarchical labels, directories, and Obsidian-style page relations. Pages are edited in a collaborative WYSIWYG editor with live cursors and offline support.
- Project site: https://dorfteich.cloud
- Public flagship instance: https://dorfteich.online
- License: MIT
Key features
- Real-time collaboration — multiple people edit the same page simultaneously; everyone sees the other participants' cursors and input live. Offline edits merge conflict-free on reconnect (CRDT-based).
- Ponds — isolated wiki spaces with their own members, permissions, fonts, and page organization. Every registered person gets a personal pond.
- Flexible organization — hierarchical labels, free page ordering,
[[wikilinks]]with backlinks. A classic page tree is possible but never enforced. - Fine-grained permissions — roles (Site Admin, Pond Admin, Editor, Reader, Public) can be granted per pond, per label, or per page; the most specific setting wins.
- Import & export — Markdown as the primary exchange format, plus best-effort structural import from Word/OpenOffice and export to Word/OpenOffice/PDF.
- Plugins — sandboxed extensions (custom blocks, styles, page tools) installable at runtime without redeploying the instance.
- Self-hosting first — a single
docker compose upplus a guided first-run setup wizard yields a working instance. Start here:docs/self-hosting/README.md.
Documentation
- What is Dorfteich? —
docs/features.md - Manuals (user / pond admin / site admin / API / MCP) —
docs/manual/, auf Deutsch:docs/de/ - Extending it (plugins, core) —
docs/developer/extending.md - Running it —
docs/self-hosting/ - How it works inside —
docs/architecture/
Repository layout
| Path | Contents |
|---|---|
docs/manual/ |
User-facing manuals: user, pond-admin, site-admin, API, and MCP guides (start at docs/manual/README.md) |
docs/developer/ |
Extending Dorfteich: plugin development and core contributions |
docs/architecture/ |
Architecture documentation: ADRs, data model, permission model, collaboration and plugin concepts, deployment and operations |
docs/self-hosting/ |
Install, update, backup, and troubleshooting guide for running your own instance |
apps/ |
Application packages (web frontend, API server, collaboration server) — created as implementation proceeds |
packages/ |
Shared packages (types, permission logic, plugin SDK) |
deploy/ |
Docker Compose stacks and deployment tooling |
Development
Requirements: Node.js ≥ 22 and pnpm (npm install -g pnpm).
pnpm install # install all workspace dependencies
pnpm lint # ESLint + Prettier check across the repo
pnpm typecheck # TypeScript --noEmit in every package
pnpm test # Vitest in every package
pnpm build # build every package (dependency order)
The workspace packages live under apps/ (web, api, collab) and
packages/ (shared). Shared logic goes into packages/shared and is
imported as @dorfteich/shared — never copy code between apps.
Status
Feature-complete for a 1.0: collaboration, permissions, import/export, plugins, public REST API + MCP, backups with off-host copies and in-app restore — all shipped and release-gated. Work is tracked as issues in this repository.
Contributing
Code, comments, and documentation are written in English. Write clear code that humans can follow easily; when in doubt, prefer readability over cleverness. All contributions are accepted under the MIT license.