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The suggestions and the full search now share one merge. Photon's hits are ranked with places that have a Wikidata link before their unlinked namesakes, and its context bias is narrower (zoom 13). The list opens on a lead where Photon's answer has one: a country or region always; a town, island or sight when it is called what was typed (or a near typo of it), lies within 1000 km of where the traveller is looking and no place of that name ranks above it. Rows of the lead's name inside it, the same element under two ids and rows that read the same are shown once. A three-letter code in capitals is asked for as the airport of the bundled list. Where Photon is the geocoder it answers alone: an empty answer and a miss are the answer for search and imports, the reverse lookup asks again within 50 km, a Google place is matched inside a box through Photon, and an opened OpenStreetMap place is placed by Overpass and named by Photon. Nominatim stays the search of installations without the TREK services or with an operator's own Nominatim. Measured on 5000 places from Wikidata: the right place first while typing 48 % before, 65 % now; full search 53 % to 68 %; no repeated rows.
Every part of your trip. One app you own.
TREK has grown from a travel planner into a whole ecosystem for trips: plan together in real time on a live map, build hikes, tours and road trips, keep bookings and shared costs in order, pack, write the journal, lay out the photo book and hand the busy work to the built-in AI. Self-hosted, on the web, on your phone and offline.
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What you get
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Most of what follows is an addon an admin switches on or off. Lists, Costs, Documents, Collab, Tours, Vacay and Atlas ship on; Journey, Collections, MCP, the AI assistant, AI Parsing, Road trip, Dawarich and AirTrail ship off and are marked below.
🧭 Planning
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🥾 Tours
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🧳 Bookings and money
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👥 Collaboration
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📔 Journey and TREK Studio
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🗺️ Atlas, Vacay and Collections
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🤖 AI assistant and MCP
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🧩 Plugins
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📱 Mobile and offline
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⚙️ Admin, accounts and security
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AI usage
We use LLM-assisted coding tools across parts of this codebase. Nothing ships that a maintainer has not read and understood: every change goes through a pull request, is reviewed and tested, and has a human who can answer for it. "The AI wrote that" is not an answer any of us would accept from ourselves.
See How we use AI in TREK for the details.
Get started in 30 seconds
ENCRYPTION_KEY=$(openssl rand -hex 32) docker run -d --name trek -p 3000:3000 \
-e ENCRYPTION_KEY=$ENCRYPTION_KEY \
-e COOKIE_SECURE=false \
-v ./data:/app/data -v ./uploads:/app/uploads mauriceboe/trek
Open http://localhost:3000, or http://<server-ip>:3000 from another machine. On first boot TREK seeds an admin account — if you set ADMIN_EMAIL/ADMIN_PASSWORD those are used, otherwise the credentials are printed to the container log (docker logs trek).
COOKIE_SECURE=false is only for trying TREK over plain HTTP: without it the browser drops the session cookie and the login does not stick. Once TREK sits behind HTTPS (see Reverse Proxy), remove it.
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Tech stack
Real-time sync via WebSocket (ws). Backend on NestJS 11. State with Zustand. Auth via JWT + OAuth 2.1 + OIDC + Passkeys (WebAuthn) + TOTP MFA. Weather via Open-Meteo (no key required). Maps with Leaflet and Mapbox GL.
Docker Compose (production)
The repository ships a ready-to-use docker-compose.yml
with secure defaults and every option documented inline. Download it, then:
docker compose up -d
See Install with Docker Compose for the full walkthrough.
Helm (Kubernetes)
helm repo add trek https://chart.liketrek.com
helm repo update
helm install trek trek/trek
See charts/README.md for values.
Install as App (PWA)
TREK works as a Progressive Web App — no App Store needed.
- Open TREK in the browser (HTTPS required)
- iOS: Share ▸ Add to Home Screen
- Android: Menu ▸ Install app (or Add to Home Screen)
TREK then launches fullscreen with its own icon, just like a native app.
Updating
See Updating — Docker Compose, Docker run, Helm, Portainer, Unraid and Proxmox, plus the encryption-key note.
Reverse Proxy
For production, put TREK behind a TLS-terminating reverse proxy. TREK uses WebSockets for real-time sync, so the proxy must support WebSocket upgrades on /ws.
If you use the MCP addon, the proxy must also pass the Mcp-Session-Id header through in both directions on /mcp — Nginx and Caddy do this by default, but a proxy that strips it makes every tool call open a new session instead of reusing one. See the Reverse Proxy wiki page for details.
Nginx
server {
listen 80;
server_name trek.yourdomain.com;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
server_name trek.yourdomain.com;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/privkey.pem;
# 500 MB covers backup-restore uploads (capped at 500 MB server-side).
client_max_body_size 500m;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
}
location /ws {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_read_timeout 86400;
}
# Only needed if you use the MCP addon. Responses are Server-Sent Events,
# so buffering must be off or tool results arrive late.
location /mcp {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_buffering off;
proxy_read_timeout 3600s;
}
}
Caddy
trek.yourdomain.com {
reverse_proxy localhost:3000
}
Caddy handles TLS and WebSockets automatically.
Environment variables
Every variable, its default and what it does: see Environment Variables.
Data sources
The Atlas map's country and sub-national (province/county) boundaries come from geoBoundaries (Runfola et al., 2020), licensed CC BY 4.0. See NOTICE.md for full third-party attributions.
License
TREK is AGPL v3. Self-host freely for personal or internal company use. If you modify and offer TREK as a network service to third parties, your modifications must be open-sourced under the same licence.