Installation of Monkeytype with local user account creation or signup

[albert-bn]

I want to self-host Monkeytype on my Local Area Network. I have followed the written instructions on how to do so. I understand that backend installation (i.e. Firebase and Mongodb) is required if I want to have user account creation system.

I have no issue with the frontend installation and it works as expected. However, I just couldn't get the backend to work (i.e. local account creation). I have read through the guides and redo the installation several times but no success.

My setup is:

• Ubuntu Server 22.04 (Virtual Machine)
• Mongodb 4.4.18 (in docker-compose, the image version is 5.0.8 but changed to v4 due to no AVX support)

Am I missing something?

Is local account creation system supported?

When I try to sign up a new account, I realised that it is trying to reach https://api.monkeytype.com/users/signup in the console which make me wonder if account can be created locally.

[Miodec]

You need to check your database and look up that error code.

[Miodec]

Yeap. It has to point to the API server you want to use.

[albert-bn]

That's cool. You have been such a great help, and being patience to newbie like me.

[Juliaria08]

@Miodec Would it be possible to deploy the backend authentication service without using firebase. And if that wouldn't be possible. Would it be possible for me make a custom backend that doesn't use firebase (or maybe even just modify the frontend code to use mysql or some other db)?

[Miodec]

Not possible. Feel free to make that change if you want, but its gonna be very large and probably wont be merged to master

[Juliaria08]

Not possible. Feel free to make that change if you want, but its gonna be very large and probably wont be merged to master

Thanks for the help.