Building a privacy-friendly, self-hosted application architecture with SvelteKit

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umami

Analytics is something that can easily become a privacy headache. To get around the issues as much as possible, the strategy I've implemented is to self-host the analytics tool Umami (again, via the One click app functionality in CapRover!).

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Pushpin

For realtime, I used Pushpin with Server Sent Events. (It supports WebSocket as well).

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CapRover

For hosting all of the services I am using CapRover. It's a wonderfully simple PaaS (platform-as-a-service) that gives you a Heroku-like interface but runs entirely on a Virtual Private Server you control. For automated deploys, GitHub Actions are used. I've recorded a tutorial on how to get started with and deploy SvelteKit onto this architecture, so do check it out if this sounds interesting to you by clicking the image below!

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Let's start with a high level infrastructure diagram and then go into more detail. There's a lot to unpack but we're going to go through each part of the diagram one by one! The overarching architectural goal of this app was to be able to run everything "in-house" without relying on third party services, which I managed to accomplish while still having modern fetures like realtime updates, tracking and error monitoring. If you want to try the app before reading this post, you can do so here!

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