TrafficCue Server

The backend for the TrafficCue navigation app
Handles accounts, POI reviews, route sharing, MapAI, and more. All fully open and self-hostable.

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🔧 What is this?

This is the backend server powering TrafficCue, the FOSS navigation app made for slow and special vehicles.

It handles:

• 🔐 Authentication (external OIDC server)
• 🗺️ POI reviews and ratings
• 🔗 Route/Location sharing between users
• 🧠 MapAI features

You can run this yourself to host your own instance, or contribute to the official one.

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🚀 Quickstart

Requirements

• Bun
• PostgreSQL

Setup

Docker

1. Build the Docker image:

   docker build -t trafficcue-server .
   

   or pull the prebuilt image (recommended):

   docker pull git.picoscratch.de/trafficcue/trafficcue-server:latest
   

2. Run the Docker container with the required environment variables:

   docker run -d \
     -p 3000:3000 \
   	 --add-host host.docker.internal:host-gateway \
     -e DATABASE_URL=postgres://user:password@host:port/database \
   	 ... # other environment variables as needed \
     trafficcue-server
   

   or use docker compose as usual.

Local

1. Clone this repository
2. Run bun install to install dependencies
3. Launch the app at src/main.ts with the environment variables set:
   • DATABASE_URL (PostgreSQL connection string: postgres://user:password@host:port/database)
   • GOOGLE_GENERATIVE_AI_API_KEY (optional, to enable MapAI features. Its free at Google!)
   • TANKERKOENIG_API_KEY (optional, to enable fuel price features. Its free!)
   • OIDC_ENABLED (needs to be enabled for most features requiring authentication)
   • OIDC_AUTH_URL (the Authentication URL of your OIDC server)
   • OIDC_CLIENT_ID (the Client ID of your OIDC server)
   • OIDC_TOKEN_URL (the Token URL of your OIDC server)
   • OIDC_JWKS_URL (the JWKS/Certificate URL of your OIDC server)
   • REVIEWS_ENABLED (optional, set to true to enable POI reviews by users, requires OIDC)

When configuring your OIDC server, make sure to enable Public Client and PCKE support.