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One Nuxt 4 + Nuxt UI deployment made of self-contained apps. Each app is a Nuxt layer in layers/<name>/ with its own pages, components, composables, server routes and config; layers in that folder are picked up automatically. The root only holds what apps share:

• the shell (app/app.vue, global CSS, theme) and an empty /
• the Baserow client server/utils/baserow.ts (listRows, getRow, createRow, updateRow, deleteRow, listFields, each taking a table ID). NUXT_BASEROW_URL and NUXT_BASEROW_TOKEN are shared; each app reads its own table IDs.
• the login. One password (NUXT_DIARY_PASSWORD) unlocks every protected app: server/middleware/auth.ts returns 401 for the API prefixes in PROTECTED_PREFIXES until /api/auth/login has set the session cookie (signed with NUXT_SESSION_SECRET, http-only, 30 days), and a page wraps itself in <PasswordGate> to show the password prompt. To protect a new app, add its API prefix and use the gate.
• readValidBody(event, zodSchema), the client util errorMessage(error) and usePdfExport(fileName) ("Save as PDF" through the browser's print dialog: names the PDF and prints light also in dark mode; used by CV and Packer, with the <SavePdfButton> under the content)

Path	App
/diary	Diary — layers/diary/ (password protected)
/wishlist	Wishlist — layers/wishlist/
/notes	Notes — layers/notes/ (password protected)
/cv	CV — layers/cv/
/packer	Packer — layers/packer/

pnpm install
cp .env.example .env
pnpm dev

Adding an app

1. Create layers/<name>/ with app/pages/<name>.vue (or app/pages/<name>/index.vue), and whatever else it needs: app/components, app/composables, server/api/<name>/…, shared/, and a nuxt.config.ts for its runtime config.
2. Keep it contained: serve its API under /api/<name>/, and prefix useState / useFetch keys and app config with the app name. All layers share one auto-import namespace, so give components and exported utils names that won't clash with another app's (e.g. DiaryEntry, not Entry).
3. Don't use ~/ inside a layer — it points to the root app/. Use relative imports.

Packer

A public packing list built from the Baserow packing table (NUXT_BASEROW_PACKER_TABLE_ID). At the top you set the trip: number of days and people, where you sleep, weather, season and activities. The list below is grouped by category in table order, items sorted alphabetically. The settings are kept in the URL, so a list can be bookmarked or sent.

• Activities are the options of the table's activity field that some item uses, sorted alphabetically. Items with activities are only listed when one of them is picked; items without are always listed. Their icons are set in layers/packer/app/app.config.ts under packer.activityIcons (a tag icon otherwise).
• Sleeping: the activities in packer.stays (Übernachtung, Camping) aren't picked with the others. On a trip of more than one day a switch picks exactly one of them (the first by default); a day trip has neither.
• Counts: an item with every_n_days is packed once every n days (rounded up), the rest once. With the packer.laundry activity (Wäsche waschen) picked, items of the laundry categories (Kleidung) are counted for at most 4 days.
• Automatic activities (packer.autoActivities): Wäsche waschen from 5 days, Duschen from 2 days, Kochen when sleeping is Camping. Each turns on when its condition starts to hold and off when it stops; in between it can be switched by hand.
• Weather: a switch between the options of the weather field that some item uses (Sonnig, Bewölkt, Regnerisch; packer.defaultWeather on a fresh list), and next to it toggles for the weathers in packer.weatherExtras (Windig), which come on top of the picked one. Items with weathers are listed when one of them applies, empty means any weather. weather may be a single or a multiple select. Icons and the switch's order in packer.weatherIcons.
• Alternatives: rows with the same item name are listed once, when any of them fits the trip. That is how an item gets "or" conditions, e.g. Schal/Buff once with season Winter and once with weather Windig. Ticks, deletions and weight changes belong to the name's first row, so they stick whichever row fits.
• Season: items with season set are only listed in those seasons, empty means always. The season defaults to today's in Germany, by meteorological seasons (spring from 1 March, summer from 1 June, autumn from 1 September, winter from 1 December).
• People: everything that isn't sharable is multiplied by the number of people; sharable items are packed once for the group.
• Weight: once weight_g is filled in, each item shows its weight (times its count), and under the progress bar the weight already packed next to the list's total; "≥" means some listed items have no weight yet (hover for how many).
• Session only: you can tick items off, delete items (✕, on hover with a mouse), add items to a category (fields at the bottom of each category: name and optional weight; added items count once) and change any item's weight (click it; it's the weight of one piece, an empty field goes back to the table's weight, changed weights are shown in the primary color). None of this touches the table: it is kept in the browser tab's sessionStorage, survives reloads and is gone when the tab is closed.
• Als PDF speichern (under the list, as on the CV) prints the list as a checklist (with the browser's "Save as PDF"): the trip in one line under the title (days, people, season, stay, activities, total weight), the categories in two columns, ticked items ticked. The settings and the buttons are left out; the file is named packer_<days>_tage.
• Zurücksetzen (shown once anything differs from a fresh list) clears all of that and puts the settings back to their defaults (weights changed on the page go back to the table's too): 1 day, 1 person, today's season, Übernachtung and the automatic activities.

Table: item (text), category (single select), sharable (boolean), every_n_days (number), weight_g (number), season (multiple select: Frühling, Sommer, Herbst, Winter), activity (multiple select), weather (single or multiple select). Rows without item are skipped. The token needs read (rows and fields).

layers/packer/
nuxt.config.ts                baserowPackerTableId
app/
  app.config.ts               packer: activityIcons, weatherIcons, defaultWeather, weatherExtras, stays, laundry,
                              autoActivities
  pages/packer.vue            settings, progress, reset, the list, PDF button
  components/PackerSettingsBar.vue  days, people, sleeping, weather, season, activities
  components/PackerCategory.vue     one category: tick, delete, add
  composables/usePacker.ts    settings in the URL, session changes, filtering and counts
server/
  api/packer/index.get.ts     GET all items, the activities and the weathers
  utils/packer.ts             Baserow row -> PackerItem
shared/types/packer.ts

CV

A public CV built from the Baserow CV table (NUXT_BASEROW_CV_TABLE_ID). Only rows with relevant checked are shown, latest start first, split into Experience and Education (Student and Pupil). An empty To means the entry is still going on: it shows as "today" and its duration is counted until today (Baserow's Duration formula is not used).

The header (name, description per language, photo, email, LinkedIn link) is set in layers/cv/app/app.config.ts under cv. LinkedIn blocks scraping, so the photo and description are not fetched from there; put the photo in layers/cv/public/.

A DE / EN switch (remembered in the cv-lang cookie, German by default) translates the page's own text: headings, dates, durations, types, the description. Area comes from area_german on the German page; the rest of the table's text (Institution) is shown as stored.

Table: From, To (dates), Type (single select), Institution, Area (text, English), area_german (text, used on the German page, falls back to Area), Place (single select), Grade (number), relevant (boolean), file (file; each file is listed under its entry as a download, e.g. a thesis), urls (long text: one link per line, a blank line between groups such as projects; GitHub links show owner/repo with a GitHub icon, others their address; write Label https://… for custom text). Rows without From are skipped. Baserow returns file URLs as http://, so they are rewritten to NUXT_BASEROW_URL.

layers/cv/
nuxt.config.ts                baserowCvTableId
app/
  app.config.ts               cv: name, description, photo, email, linkedin
  pages/cv.vue                language switch, header, Experience and Education
  composables/useCvLang.ts    current language and the translated texts
  components/CvSection.vue    one section: period, duration, area, institution, type, grade
  utils/cvDate.ts             period and duration, open-ended until today
server/
  api/cv/index.get.ts         GET relevant entries
  utils/cv.ts                 Baserow row -> CvEntry
shared/types/cv.ts

Notes

Minimal notes: a collapsible list of notes on the left, a WYSIWYG Markdown editor (Nuxt UI UEditor) on the right. No folders. A note is named by its title, or by when it was created if the title is empty. Changes save themselves 0.8 s after you stop typing, and when you leave the note or close the tab. Select text for the formatting toolbar; Markdown shortcuts (# , - , **bold**, …) also work.

Search at the top of the list matches title and text (/api/notes/docs?q=, case-insensitive, parts of words too). It uses Baserow's search; Baserow only searches the fields a request includes, so the search includes content.

Shortcuts (Ctrl instead of ⌘ outside macOS): ⌘ ⌥ N new note, ⌘ E show/hide the note list (so the editor's ⌘ E for inline code is turned off; use backticks or the toolbar). Plain ⌘ N can't be used, the browser keeps it.

Table (NUXT_BASEROW_NOTES_APP_TABLE_ID): title (single line text), content (long text without rich text; holds the Markdown), created and updated (dates with time, set by the server when a note is created or saved). The list is sorted by created, newest first. Rows added in Baserow directly have no dates and show as "Untitled" at the bottom. The token needs read, create, update and delete.

layers/notes/
app/
  pages/notes.vue             password gate, sidebar + the open note
  pages/notes/index.vue       nothing selected
  pages/notes/[id].vue        title, editor, delete
  components/NotesList.vue    the note list (open, delete)
  components/NotesSidebar.vue desktop: the list on the left (open/closed is remembered in a cookie)
  components/NotesDrawer.vue  mobile: the list, pulled down from the top
  components/NotesActionBar.vue "New", bottom right
  components/NotesSidebarHandle.vue desktop: chevron on the sidebar edge, on hover, shows/hides the list
  composables/
    useNotes.ts               the list, create/delete, note names
    useNotesAutosave.ts       debounced saving
server/api/notes/docs/        GET list, POST create, GET/PATCH/DELETE [id]
shared/                       NotesDoc type, update schema

Wishlist

A public shelf of the books in the Baserow wishlist table (NUXT_BASEROW_WISHLIST_TABLE_ID): cover, German title and author per card. A card opens its Thalia link. Search matches title and author; sort by author (last name) or title.

Below the shelf, Bereits gelesen lists title and author of every book in the books table with read set (read_date filled in), so nobody gives a book twice. Above it, Gerade am Lesen lists the books with currently_reading checked. Search and sort apply to it too. The books table is found through the wishlist's books link.

Table: isbn (text), thalia (URL), cover (URL), books (link to the books table) and the lookups title (German title) and authors.

Covers: cover is used if set. Otherwise the browser looks the ISBN up on Open Library (openlibrary.org/isbn/<isbn>.json) and posts the cover URL to /api/wishlist/books/<id>/cover, which saves it to the row, so each book is looked up only until it has a cover. That route is public but only accepts https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/<n>-M.jpg and never overwrites a cover. Books Open Library has no cover for get a generated tile; paste any image URL into cover to give them one.

layers/wishlist/
nuxt.config.ts                baserowWishlistTableId
app/
  pages/wishlist.vue          search, sort, grid
  components/WishlistCard.vue cover + title + author, links to Thalia
  composables/
    useWishlist.ts            loads, searches and sorts the books
    useWishlistCover.ts       cover from the table or Open Library, saves it back
server/
  api/wishlist/books/         GET list, POST [id]/cover
  api/wishlist/reading.get.ts, read.get.ts   books being read / already read
  utils/wishlist.ts           Baserow row -> WishlistBook
  utils/shelf.ts              books table lookup, listShelfBooks(filter)
shared/types/wishlist.ts

Diary

A password-protected diary of reviews (books, movies, albums) and notes, built with Nuxt 4 + Nuxt UI on top of two self-hosted Baserow tables.

Configuration

Variable	Purpose
NUXT_BASEROW_URL	Baserow instance, no trailing slash
NUXT_BASEROW_TOKEN	Database token with read and create access to both tables
NUXT_BASEROW_REVIEWS_TABLE_ID	Reviews table
NUXT_BASEROW_NOTES_TABLE_ID	Notes table
NUXT_BASEROW_WISHLIST_TABLE_ID	Wishlist table (see Wishlist)
NUXT_BASEROW_CV_TABLE_ID	CV table (see CV)
NUXT_BASEROW_PACKER_TABLE_ID	Packing table (see Packer)
NUXT_BASEROW_NOTES_APP_TABLE_ID	Table of the notes app (see Notes), not the diary's notes
NUXT_DIARY_PASSWORD	Password that unlocks the diary and notes
NUXT_SESSION_SECRET	Signs the login cookie, at least 32 characters (openssl rand -hex 32)

In layers/diary/app/app.config.ts, diary.showCovers: true shows a generated title tile next to each review.

What it does

• /diary: reviews and notes on one timeline, newest first, grouped by year.
• Only entries with text are shown. Long text is collapsed behind "Read more".
• Search matches every word against the kind (review, note), the medium (book, movie, album), the date (aug 2025, 2025-08), the title, the author and the text. Matches in the text are highlighted.
• "Log" opens a form with a Note / Review switch. A review is written for a book picked from the books table; its "Read on" date is saved as that book's read_date.
• Until the password is entered, only a password prompt is shown and every /api/diary/* route returns 401 (the shared login, see the top of this file). Changing NUXT_SESSION_SECRET logs out every browser.

Code layout

layers/diary/
nuxt.config.ts                runtime config (env vars above)
app/
  app.config.ts               diary.showCovers
  pages/diary.vue             password gate around the timeline
  components/
    DiaryTimeline.vue         the diary: search, Log button, entries grouped by year
    DiaryEntry.vue            one timeline entry (date, title, text, read more)
    LogModal.vue              Note / Review switch around the two forms
    NoteForm.vue, ReviewForm.vue
    CoverTile.vue             generated cover, used when showCovers is on
  composables/
    useDiary.ts               loads reviews + notes, searches, sorts and groups them by year
    useSaveEntry.ts           shared submit logic of the forms
    useLog.ts                 open/close state of the Log modal
  utils/                      dates, icons, search highlighting
  types/entry.ts              a timeline entry (review or note)
server/
  api/diary/                  reviews and notes (GET list, POST create), books (for the review form)
  utils/
    diaryTable.ts             the diary's table IDs (the Baserow client itself is in the root server/utils)
    review.ts, note.ts, book.ts  Baserow row -> app type
shared/
  types/                      Review, Note
  utils/medium.ts             the review media: label and creator label
  utils/schemas.ts            zod schemas used by both forms and API

Baserow tables

Reviews: books (link to the books table), review (long text), medium (single select: Book / Movie / Album) and the lookups through books: title (title_german), author_or_director (authors) and date (read_date). The books table is found through the books link, so it needs no table ID.

Books: title, title_german, authors (link) and read_date (date).

Notes (the diary's, now named diary in Baserow): Datum (date) and Notes (long text).

Rows without a date are skipped. Text is plain text: line breaks are kept and it is never rendered as HTML.

Adding a medium

Reviews currently link only to books, so the form always saves Book. Other media need their own link field.

1. Add the option to the medium single select in Baserow.
2. Add it to Medium in layers/diary/shared/types/review.ts, to MEDIUMS in layers/diary/shared/utils/medium.ts (its label must match the Baserow option) and to MEDIUM_ICONS in layers/diary/app/utils/icons.ts.