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App Packaging & Development

App package development & help

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  • Looking to collaborate? Post here if you need help or willing to offer help.

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    Hi everyone,

    I need help with the following tasks, specifically for use within Cloudron:

    Packaging a React App:

    I need assistance in setting up a React app to connect with Directus hosted on Cloudron.

    If possible, I’d like a detailed SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) to follow for future setups.

    Setting Up a Node.js or Next.js App with React:

    I want to create a new MySQL database for this app, hosted on Cloudron, and need guidance on setting up and working with this database.

    Again, having an SOP for future reference would be highly appreciated.

    I’m willing to pay for these services or would be grateful if someone could kindly share their expertise and the required SOPs.

    Thanks in advance!

  • App contributions hall of fame

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    @girish Missed that message. Yeah, Open WebUI is the one that made it to published. I've made several other things but they're mostly to learn packaging/tests (such as a standalone DB app, etc.)

  • Translators hall of fame

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    nebulonN

    Public registration is off on that, but we do add language maintainers manually if needed. See https://docs.cloudron.io/i18n/#maintaining-translations

    Since we have native German speakers on the team, we are maintaining that internally, however you can suggest changes via the weblate instance for any strings and I will review those then.

  • Read first before starting to package an app

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    I guess the current link would be https://docs.cloudron.io/packaging/tutorial/

  • Building custom packages

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    @Grienauer

    We haven't yet had a case where different data directories of apps cannot be symlinked to a subdirectory /app/data . It keeps backup/restore logic simple if we limit to one folder. Do you have an app in mind which cannot do this?

    Usually, we manage to change apps to use supervisor and thus package multiple containers into one. I guess it's possible to implement this, we haven't yet.

  • Writing automated tests for packages

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    @nebulon Yea I just wanted to reply never mind, I copied the tests from the alltube app which do not even use selenium so yeeaa my mistake.

    Now I took the nextcloud tests and will learn from them 🙂

  • Cloudron Non-App Store Packaged Apps

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    @matbrgz added to the post at the top!

  • Publish an Official App Packaging Roadmap

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    @humptydumpty said in Publish an Official App Packaging Roadmap:

    As for app packaging, if I’m not mistaken, Cloudron staff take over and handle any future updates if it’s added to the App Store. I don’t expect every niche app will get adopted but the highly voted/starred apps that fill a gap in CR’s ecosystem will have a higher chance.

    CR could enhance/simply how custom repos/apps are added. Some of the regulars on here have shared their own packaged apps, but the process isn’t clear to me yet. That’s something worth looking into though. Sigh, too much to do and not enough time!

    That's the main difference to platforms like Yunohost, where you have a ton of user packaged apps.... - that don't work, break, become unmaintained etc.

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    Wow thanks @nebulon . I think it would have been necessary one day or another with the current AI hype.

    By the way I'd be glad to share my "cloudron packaging prompt engineering" techniques some when. I'll make a second try with another app, I am thinking appsmith 🙂

  • Using AI to build a package

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    Have you tried training them on example files?

  • J-Lawyer on Cloudron

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    ok. thanks for the fast answer.

  • Blossom Server package

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    @sebdev @cortex @robi @scooke @github-tijlxyz @jdaviescoates @timconsidine you might be interested in trying out this nostr package and maybe providing some feedback for nostrdev-com who kindly created it.

  • Packaging an app (tutorial)

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    @mdc773 there is a video at https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2843/read-first-before-starting-to-package-an-app which @fbartels made

  • Cloudron Typescript App Example Using Old Docker Base Image

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    Thanks for the reminder, I have updated that file now with the new base image.

  • XMPP Server - Prosody

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    @girish - Given that the only blocker (that I know of so far) is the TLD certificate availability, would it be a decent workaround to package this entire thing as an application, and then run a one-time command to symlink the TLD certificate into the application directory? This would allow the sys admin to choose which application deserves access to the TLD certificate, ensure the app always has access to the latest certificate, and work around the current limitation of apps not being able to request the TLD cert.

  • Need help resolving Error with Monero Node in Cloudron.

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    I think that is just the docker image and not the docker file - https://hub.docker.com/r/jacobmatrktippetts/monero-node

  • Can't install custom app anymore via CLI, constantly retrying

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    Maybe a temporary issue with your private docker registry or otherwise. Lets see if next time we have more info to work with.

  • Downloading image fails, constantly retrying

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  • Problems with Postgres Addon

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    I solved the port issue as well.
    The problem occured when I tried to start an interactive shell, which counted as starting a second application inside the cloudron app, that's where the port conflict came from.

    If someone else is working with Elixir on Cloudron, you can start an interactive shell like this:
    /app/_build/prod/rel/APP/bin/APP remote

  • Installing custom Apps on Cloudron

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    As a relatively new member of the Cloudron community (especially compared to @scooke) I can see both points of view. The current collection of apps is very eclectic, spanning both personal and business. And to a certain extent that reflects the wide range of our community - a strength.

    I do not envy @girish and team trying to please all of us. It is both thankless and impossible. But one person's "must have" app is another person's "who cares". The danger is losing members if their needs are not met with the applications they need or want.

    Perhaps having a simplified installation process would allow more people to customize their Cloudrons as desired. And yes, despite the warnings that you are on your own, I am sure that support questions will arise. And the spirit of the Cloudron team and the community to help will always prevail. As long as these questions are within reasonable limits, perhaps this will allow the platform to grow more valuable without being overwhelmed. I would suggest that custom-installed apps have its own topic area, especially if the results could be hidden from search engines to prevent prospective members getting the wrong impression about Cloudron's reliability per @scooke 's valid concerns.

    Finally, I am personally interested in a business-oriented, custom-app platform where Dockerized applications can be hosted in a well-thought out and architected environment like Cloudron. We are exploring several ideas along these lines, including adding some private applications we have created, others we have paid to license, and some that are open source. And these systems would require incremental Cloudrons - helping to grow the revenue stream. In the end, that's the idea, isn't it...

  • Crontab not running in custom LAMP

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    @alex-uxlabsmx should work now. there were a couple of issues in the crontab:

    '&' in the end of the cron line. this puts the command in the background. cronjobs are not run in background and instead run on a schedule. so, the '&' should be removed. 'source' command is a bash primitive. you have to wrap it in bash -c "source ... && anothercommand", for example

    seems to work after that.