weirdfingers-boards 0.2.1

Backend API server for Boards - AI creative toolkit with GraphQL, auth adapters, and generation workers

Boards Backend

Backend for the Boards open-source creative toolkit for AI-generated content.

Features

• 🎨 Multi-provider support (Replicate, Fal.ai, OpenAI, etc.)
• 🔌 Pluggable architecture for generators and providers
• 📊 GraphQL API with Strawberry
• 🗄️ PostgreSQL with SQLAlchemy 2.0
• 🔄 Migrations with Alembic (async) and timestamped filenames
• 👥 Multi-tenant support with tenant isolation
• 🔐 Pluggable authentication (Supabase, Clerk, Auth0, JWT)
• 📦 Flexible storage backends (Local, S3, GCS, Supabase)

Installation

# Install from PyPI (includes core dependencies: Redis, PyJWT)
pip install boards-backend

# Or with optional provider/storage dependencies
pip install boards-backend[providers,storage-s3,storage-gcs]

Development Installation

# Clone the repository and install (includes all extras for typecheck)
git clone https://github.com/weirdfingers/boards.git
cd boards/packages/backend
uv sync  # Automatically installs dev dependencies including all providers/storage

Configuration

Copy .env.example to .env and configure your settings:

cp .env.example .env

Key configuration options:

• BOARDS_DATABASE_URL: PostgreSQL connection string (e.g. postgresql://user:pass@localhost:5433/db)
• BOARDS_REDIS_URL: Redis connection for job queue
• BOARDS_STORAGE_PROVIDER: Storage backend (local, s3, gcs, supabase)
• BOARDS_AUTH_PROVIDER: Authentication provider

Database Setup

1. Create the database

createdb boards_dev

2. Apply initial schema via Alembic

# Use Alembic to create all tables
uv run alembic upgrade head

Development

Quick Start

# Start the API server (after installation and configuration)
boards-server

# Run database migrations
boards-migrate upgrade head

# Start background workers
boards-worker

Development Server

# Using uvicorn directly
uvicorn boards.api.app:app --reload --port 8088

# Or using the module
python -m boards.api.app

Access the GraphQL playground

Open http://localhost:8088/graphql in your browser.

Database migrations

When you need to change the database schema, use Alembic.

# Create a new migration (autogenerate from models in boards.dbmodels)
uv run alembic revision -m "add feature" --autogenerate

# Apply latest migrations
uv run alembic upgrade head

# Roll back one revision
uv run alembic downgrade -1

📖 For detailed migration workflow, see docs and examples under apps/docs.

Project Structure

packages/backend/
├── alembic/                 # Alembic migration scripts
│   └── versions/            # Timestamped revision files
├── alembic.ini              # Alembic config
├── src/boards/
│   ├── api/                 # FastAPI application
│   ├── dbmodels/            # SQLAlchemy ORM models (authoritative)
│   ├── database/            # Connection helpers and compatibility shim
│   ├── graphql/             # GraphQL schema and resolvers
│   ├── providers/           # Provider implementations
│   ├── generators/          # Generator implementations
│   ├── storage/             # Storage backends
│   └── config.py            # Configuration management
└── tests/

License

MIT