Calibre is a popular self-hosted ebook manager. Github page.
Now, Calibre is a desktop application, not a web application. But there is also Calibre-web, which is a web front end for the Calibre backend.
Should Calibre and Calibre-web be hosted through a single Cloudron application, or 2 separate applications?
Either way, I think these 2 applications could be very powerful on Cloudron.
I recently realized that there are quite a few apps that have been packaged by gracious developers here that aren't on the App Store for one reason or another. I started a repo to keep track of them hoping we can compile the whole lot of them!
A copy of the list is pinned here:
Homepage - A simple, standalone, self-hosted PHP page that is your window to your server and the web. (Source Code)
Standard Notes (Sync Server) - The Standard Notes syncing server (Source Code)
Standard Notes Web - A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app. (Source Code)
webhooks - webhook is a lightweight incoming webhook server to run shell commands (Source Code)
Astral - Organize Your GitHub Stars With Ease (Source Code, Home Page, Demo)
Open to suggestions about formatting or any other pieces of data we may want to keep track of. Also, feel free to comment here about any more Apps that are packaged and they can be added to the list and repo!
Hello all!
I've been developing/packaging what I think could be a new form of Cloudron apps, Themes (working title : ). The idea here is a simple Homepage that will display your installed Cloudron applications for easy access. You can see a working copy on my instance here! Be sure to hit space bar to toggle the menu.
Features include:
Note that this is NOT meant to replace the current Cloudron dashboard, but rather be a supplementary 'app browser'. When the menu is displayed in the Homepage App, there is a cog icon at the top right with the time stamp that will take you straight to your original Cloudron dashboard when you need full access to Backups, Logs, etc.
This app is based on the homepage-cloudron repo, which is based off of the homepage repo, both of which I am the author of. Happy to answer any questions! You can find the Cloudron packaged app here.
If this is interesting, I could work up some basic tests for this to eventually be included in the actual Cloudron App Store. Though it is important to note that for this to work properly, the setup requires creating a new Cloudron API key and updating the config.json file through the Terminal (not super user-friendly).
Thoughts/suggestions/notes welcome!
@marcusquinn thanks! I am trying to keep the project relatively simple so I don't want to get too deep into features. It is worth noting though that the original Homepage app does support opening links in new tabs. I could see a feature on the Cloudron app where it's an all-or-nothing boolean - all links will open in a new tab, or all links will open in the same tab. I also could see supporting non-Cloudron app links, and potentially number of columns. The way I see it, the icons should possibly adjust automatically based on the number of columns (again, this is a bit of the complexity I'm trying to avoid with a KISS app). The search bar I've also purposefully avoided this whole time, but I'm open to suggestions. It's also worth noting that you are free to create PR's into the Github repo if you want to contribute!
@robi that's an interesting point. Only admins are installing new applications indeed, but still, I'm not sure that all admins are capable or comfortable with going to an app's terminal, vim'ing (is that a verb??) the config file and adding in an API key. That being said, it's probably a good enough start for now, and could potentially revisit if/when @girish or @nebulon decide to add such a feature.
I think I've managed to get a basic version of Firefly III packaged! You can find the Git repo here. The main thing to note is that the LDAP connection doesn't quite work with Cloudron's system yet. @girish @nebulon I'm hoping one of you can help look through this and see if we can get a proper connection going? If we can link up the LDAP system, I'm happy to write some tests for this app so we can publish it to the Cloudron App Store.
There's also a no-ldap branch available which will let users register their own accounts on the app, not trying to use LDAP at all. If we can't get a successful LDAP connection going, then I can write tests for this version instead for the App Store.
Astral is an app to organize and sift through one's Github stars. (Source Code, Home Page, Demo)
Viewing one's Github stars on Github isn't very intuitive, easy, or flexible, so I used this app for a bit since Github is where I keep all of the potential apps that could eventually be packaged for Cloudron 
I then realized that this is in and of itself something I'd like to have on my Cloudron, so it's now packaged here. I also added it to the Non App Store Packaged Apps forum thread.
If enough people like it, I'm happy to create some tests and make this an official app. Enjoy!
@girish thanks for publishing I definitely see some similarities/overlap between Astral and ReleaseBell. I'm curious what you see in the way of ideas for ReleaseBell? Tbh my ultimate vision would be to allow for ReleaseBell to call a configurable webhook with a new release, not just email, but I might be dreaming here
I'll message upstream about the packaging of this after I can get some tests going and this gets published to the Store here so it'll be real.
@robi I mentioned previously, I'm not available in the coming weeks due to the Holiday's and family, but am open to hosting around mid-January! I've been wanting to package Traccar, but can also look at some other options in the App Wishlist to see if there's something interesting with a higher vote.
I was messing around with the File Manager today and had some thoughts around it. Figured it'd be fine to add here as this is a bit of a general topic.
I realize the File Manager is still in its infancy and these issues aren't pressing at all, just some thoughts for improvement!
https://sr.ht has recently been deployed to general availability. It seems like a Phabricator like tool in that it has many different aspects. git, CI, mailing list management, wiki, etc.
@atrilahiji I've never thought about 'not needing Github', as much of a privacy nut as I consider myself, Github is still integral to the dev world as I see it. How else would you contribute back to these projects if it weren't for a Github username? 
@girish Astral already provides notes per repo which is nice (though I mainly use simple tagging). I do agree though that there might be some 'middle-ground' solution where it's not just notification based and not explicitly tied to Github (off the top of my head, both Github and Gitlab - and probably other Git apps - have repo-based RSS feeds which could make for another input). I'm having a hard time envisioning exactly what that would look like, but I'm happy to help contribute where needed!
@girish thanks for publishing I definitely see some similarities/overlap between Astral and ReleaseBell. I'm curious what you see in the way of ideas for ReleaseBell? Tbh my ultimate vision would be to allow for ReleaseBell to call a configurable webhook with a new release, not just email, but I might be dreaming here
I'll message upstream about the packaging of this after I can get some tests going and this gets published to the Store here so it'll be real.
Astral is an app to organize and sift through one's Github stars. (Source Code, Home Page, Demo)
Viewing one's Github stars on Github isn't very intuitive, easy, or flexible, so I used this app for a bit since Github is where I keep all of the potential apps that could eventually be packaged for Cloudron
I then realized that this is in and of itself something I'd like to have on my Cloudron, so it's now packaged here. I also added it to the Non App Store Packaged Apps forum thread.
If enough people like it, I'm happy to create some tests and make this an official app. Enjoy!
@subven The Dimension link you sent looks quite interesting, do you think this could be packaged for Cloudron to upgrade user's own Matrix and Element apps?
@nebulon FWIW I was able to spin up an instance of the new version and migrate everything over without hiccup today. Fingers crossed that we won't need such a migration for future updates...
@murgero sounds awesome, I'd love to test it out! Not sure which repo would be in more working order.
@doodlemania2 love it! I plan on being there and can try and help and chip in where needed!
@marcusquinn one app at a time
@doodlemania2 tbh, I was hoping to go through it during the live session, debugging in tandem can be pretty powerful. That being said, if I get a chance between now and then, what hiccups exactly are you coming across? Haven't cloned it and ran it yet, but looks to be a good amount of the way there!
@doodlemania2 I'd be happy to (try and) help! I'm on EST so weekday evenings are good typically or weekend mornings. I'm not super proficient with packaging apps but have done a few before so can try and help get you through where you're stuck.