Mili

Mili is an open-source community system described by its author as having an elegant interface and rich features. It is aimed at people who want to run their own online community or forum site and gives them a working, production-tested example to adapt rather than a generic forum shell.

The project is actually used on the site mili.com, which the author says demonstrates it can be used to build a real community. Its frontend is built with Vue and iView, while the backend uses TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS and TypeORM, following a fairly standard modern full-stack setup, and it ships with an admin panel for managing the site.

Running it requires Nginx, Node.js, MySQL and Redis at specific versions noted in the README, with configuration done through host entries, an Nginx config and a database config file. It is released under the GPL license and includes default login credentials for local testing of the admin interface.