threadcount-community/README.md

ThreadCount

Uniform stock management for healthcare linen rooms: what is on the shelf, who took it, what it cost the ward, and the supplier orders and stocktakes in between. Written by a hospital uniform coordinator for their own room.

• Hosted at threadcount.tech — free for a room under 60 staff records, paid hosting for a facility, a bundle for a health service. Pricing.
• Community edition — this repository, run on your own server. Every feature, no plans, no ceiling, nothing reported anywhere. Licensed under the GNU AGPL v3.

The two editions are the same code. EDITION=community in the environment is the only difference, and docs/self-hosting.md says exactly what it changes.

Run it yourself

You need Docker with Compose, a machine with 2 GB of memory, and a hostname with TLS in front of it (any reverse proxy — Caddy, nginx, Traefik). The app sets Secure cookies in production, so it will not sign anyone in over plain HTTP from another machine.

git clone https://gitea.pricehq.tech/kyle/threadcount-community.git
cd threadcount-community
cp .env.example .env

Edit .env and set at least:

Variable	What it is
SESSION_SECRET	Signs every session cookie. openssl rand -base64 48. The server refuses to start while it says change-me.
POSTGRES_PASSWORD	The bundled database's password. Anything long.
NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL	The address people will open the app at, e.g. https://uniforms.example.health. Compiled in at build time, so set it before the first build.
EDITION	community.
SMTP_HOST, SMTP_PORT, SMTP_USER, SMTP_PASS, SMTP_FROM	Optional. Without them nothing is emailed — password resets and manager approval links then have to be handled at the counter, and the screens say so.

Then:

docker compose up -d --build

The first start creates the database schema. Open your hostname, choose Create account, name your facility: you are its first administrator. Load the catalogue and staff register from CSV under Settings › Data (templates are there), and set SIGNUPS_DISABLED=1 in .env once your facility exists so nobody else can create one on your instance.

Upgrading, backups, restoring, single sign-on, Turnstile, and what the two Android apps can and cannot do against a self-hosted instance: docs/self-hosting.md.

Developing

Node 24 and a Postgres. npm ci, put DATABASE_URL and SESSION_SECRET in .env, then npx prisma migrate deploy && npm run dev. The end-to-end suites are plain bash and curl against a dev server on port 3111: scripts/e2e*.sh. scripts/check-identity.sh must stay clean.

Licence

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. Run it, change it, host it for others — and if you host a changed version for others, they get the changed source too. See LICENSE.