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@@ -9,12 +9,41 @@ This is a notebook app written in typescript using koa for the backend and react
 
 ## Getting started
 
+### Not using docker
+
 First, install all of the dependencies with `npm i` and `cd frontend && npm i`
 
-You also need to create a ormconfig.json and ormconfig.test.json (only if you want to run the tests). You can use ormconfig.example.json as an example (you only need to change the database connection settings)
+You also need to create a `ormconfig.json` and `ormconfig.test.json` (only if you
+want to run the tests). You can use ormconfig.example.json as an example (you
+only need to change the database connection settings)
 
-**or**
+### Using docker
 
-Open the workspace in a remote docker container using VSCode - everything should be set up for you.
+Open the workspace in a remote docker container using VSCode - everything should
+be set up for you. You just need to rename `ormconfig.example.json` to `ormconfig.json`
+Also, you need to run database migrations with
+`npm run typeorm-dev -- migration:run`
 
-Then start with `npm run dev` and visit http://localhost:1234 (Parcel dev server is listening at http://localhost:1234, and koa at http://localhost:3000)
+Then start with `npm run dev` and visit http://localhost:1234 (Parcel dev server
+is listening at http://localhost:1234, and koa at http://localhost:3000)
+
+## Actually hosting this thing
+
+The suggested way to host this is, agian, using Docker: you can find a
+docker-compose example in `dockercomposeexample` folder
+
+### Config options (for docker container)
+
+* `TYPEORM_HOST` - mariadb hostname
+
+* `TYPEORM_USERNAME` - mariadb username
+
+* `TYPEORM_PASSWORD` - mariadb password
+
+* `TYPEORM_DATABASE` - mariadb database
+
+* `TYPEORM_PORT` - mariadb port
+
+* `JWT_SECRET` - JWT secret - set it to something random
+
+* `HTTPS` (`"yes"`/`"no"`) - whether the server enforce HTTPS or not