Dmitry VerkhoturovandGitHub
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* Serve the build-independent web assets from the backend `privacy.html`, `markdown-help.html` and the `400x400.jpeg` it embeds carry no template variable, link no script or stylesheet, and are imported by nothing in the widget. They now live in `backend/app/webassets/assets`, embedded there, and are served under `/web` alongside the frontend build. `/web` reads the frontend build first and falls back to them, which is what lets an operator replace one by dropping a file into `--web-root`. That is what `privacy.html` needs: it describes remark42.com, while the authorization guide tells operators to hand its URL to Google and Facebook as their own application's privacy policy. Only a missing file falls through. An unreadable file in the web root keeps reporting as unreadable rather than being silently replaced by the embedded copy, and a name the filesystem rejects reports as missing rather than as a server error, both matching what `http.Dir` did. The dev server serves the same directory, so the Markdown help link in the comment form resolves on the dev port as well as in production. The two pages are served as they are written. `markdown-help.html` was minified before, and its formatted inline stylesheet is most of its 8.5 kB; that is 2.4 kB more over the wire, behind the hour-long cache header the file server already sets. Drops `copy-webpack-plugin`, which had no other pattern, and the stylelint entries that only ever matched these files. * Make pnpm dev:app start again The dev server has been failing to start on two counts, so the flow the contributing guide documents does not run at all. `webpack-cli` 4 drives `webpack-dev-server` 5 through the argument order of an older major, handing it the compiler where it expects the options object. It rejects that against its schema and exits, complaining about an unknown `_assetEmittingPreviousFiles` property, which is a field of the compiler. `webpack-cli` 7 is the release that declares `webpack-dev-server` 5 as a peer. Past that, `http-proxy-middleware` resolves to 4.1.1, which no longer accepts the two-argument call `webpack-dev-server` makes, so the `/api` and `/auth` proxies throw on startup. It is pulled in by the security override for CVE-2025-32996, the only override in the file with no upper bound: `>=2.0.10` matches every later major. Bounding it to the 2.x line keeps the fix and the API `webpack-dev-server` calls. With both in place `pnpm dev:app` serves the widget and the pages under `/web` on port 9000.
Remark42 
Remark42 is a self-hosted, lightweight and simple (yet functional) comment engine, which doesn't spy on users. It can be embedded into blogs, articles, or any other place where readers add comments.
- Social login via Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Apple, Yandex, Patreon, Discord, Telegram and custom OAuth2 providers
- Login via email
- Optional anonymous access
- Multi-level nested comments with both tree and plain presentations
- Import from Disqus and WordPress
- Markdown support with friendly formatter toolbar
- Moderator can remove comments and block users
- Voting, pinning and verification system
- Sortable comments
- Images upload with drag-and-drop
- Extractor for recent comments, cross-post
- RSS for all comments and each post
- Telegram, Slack, Webhook and email notifications for Admins (get notified for each new comment)
- Email and Telegram notifications for users (get notified when someone responds to your comment)
- Export data to JSON with automatic backups
- No external databases, everything embedded in a single data file
- Fully dockerized and can be deployed in a single command
- Self-contained executable can be deployed directly to Linux, Windows and macOS
- Clean, lightweight and customizable UI with white and dark themes
- Multi-site mode from a single instance
- Integration with automatic SSL (direct and via nginx-le)
- Privacy focused
Demo site available with all authentication methods, including email auth and anonymous access.
All remark42 documentation is available by the link.
Contribution
In order to start and work on the project locally in development mode check our contribution documentation for backend and frontend.
If you are interested in adding a new localization please check these docs.