I built a free, server-free Nightscout that anyone can set up in minutes.
Hi everyone,
I built a completely serverless way to deploy Nightscout. It costs nothing, and takes maybe a few minutes to set up, even if you have zero tech background.
https://github.com/sid-luo/nightscout-for-cloudflare
Ten years ago, my wife was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. She was 33 weeks pregnant, went into DKA, and was admitted to the hospital. She spent 3 days in the ICU, and we lost our baby girl. The aftermath was really rough on us.
It was something we struggled with for a long time, until 5 years ago when she got pregnant again. I started building little devices to monitor her blood sugar, all relying on Nightscout. Over time, I basically became a Nightscout "expert" and started hosting it on my own servers for other T1Ds for free.
I love the Nightscout project, but let's be honest, setting it up isn't exactly friendly for non-tech folks (and yeah, I know commercial options exist). I wanted to build this on Cloudflare because their free tier is super generous. The problem? It doesn't support MongoDB, and rewriting the core architecture was way above my paygrade. Thanks codex, I spent a lot of time (and burned through a massive amount of tokens) and finally got it working.
I’ve tested it a bunch, but this is my very first open-source project, so there will probably be some bugs.
BTW, my older son is 4 now, and my youngest is almost 2. Both are perfectly healthy.