Beam is a simple tool that allows members to write posts to share across your organization. Think of it like a lightweight internal blog. Features include a simple Markdown-based editor with preview, image drag and drop, comments and likes, search, a clean responsive layout with dark mode support, and an admin role for hiding posts.

npm install

• Create a PlanetScale database
• Create a connection string to connect to your database. Choose Prisma for the format
• Alternatively, your PlanetScale database and connection string can be generated using the pscale CLI or GitHub Actions. View instructions.
• Set up the environment variables:

cp .env.example .env

• Open .env and set the DATABASE_URL variable with the connection string from PlanetScale
• Create the database schema:

npx prisma db push

GitHub and Okta authentication settings are available as defaults, but thanks to NextAuth.js, you can configure your Beam instance with most other common authentication providers.

• Configuring GitHub authentication
• Configuring Okta authentication

Beam uses NextAuth.js, so if you prefer to use one of the many providers it supports, you can customize your own installation. Simply update the lib/auth.ts file to add your own provider.

To enable image uploads, set the environment variable NEXT_PUBLIC_ENABLE_IMAGE_UPLOAD to true.

Beam uses Cloudinary for storing uploaded images. You can sign up for a free account.

• On your Cloudinary dashboard, look for these values under your account settings: Cloud Name, API Key, API Secret.
• Update .env with the following variables:
  • CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME: Cloud Name
  • CLOUDINARY_API_KEY: API Key
  • CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET: API Secret

If you'd like to have new Beam posts published to a Slack channel, follow these instructions.

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

One-click deploy:

⚠️ Remember to update your callback URLs after deploying.