NocoDB usage

I"m into my second day of trying to use NocoDB & I’m failing.

Tried Heroku but the steps kept expanding until I thought I’d try the Docker approach. Then GitHub Desktop directly.

But according to the massive forum questions it is still a long way from being a fullfledged Airtable alternative.\

In GitHub I made a new account since it says it can be hosted anywhere and have a local synched clone on my Mac now. But I don’t know the next steps to get it to work in a localhost dashboard as it does when I tried the NocoDB project server environment where the options are so few.

If one of our pros knows how to make this sit up and behave so that I can first connect it to my own databse I’d appreciate it.

And it seems that instead of running this as a Docker project I should drop the code all into my own localhost environment.