Description
You should have full control over your data. We help you achieve that: a safe home for all your data. Secure, under your control and developed in an open, transparent and trustworthy way. We are Nextcloud.
Nextcloud, the next generation Enterprise File Sync & Share was started by ownCloud inventor Frank Karlitschek to empower users to take back control over their data and communication. The company was founded as a spin-off from Struktur AG, a leading web conferencing and financial planning software company since 1995, servicing customers like Deutsche Bank, Vodafone, BNP Paribas and many others. Nextcloud gives organizations fine-grained control over data access, facilitates file synchronization and sharing across devices, enables collaboration within and across organizational boundaries and lets users communicate through secure WebRTC audio and video conferencing.
See our features page for more information about what Nextcloud can do for you.
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README
Nextcloud Server ☁
A safe home for all your data.
Why is this so awesome? 🤩
- 📁 Access your Data You can store your files, contacts, calendars, and more on a server of your choosing.
- 🔄 Sync your Data You keep your files, contacts, calendars, and more synchronized amongst your devices.
- 🙌 Share your Data …by giving others access to the stuff you want them to see or to collaborate with.
- 🚀 Expandable with hundreds of Apps ...like Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Video Chat and all those you can discover in our App Store
- 🔒 Security with our encryption mechanisms, HackerOne bounty program and two-factor authentication.
Do you want to learn more about how you can use Nextcloud to access, share and protect your files, calendars, contacts, communication & more at home and in your organization? Learn about all our Features.
Get your Nextcloud 🚚
- ☑️ Simply sign up at one of our providers either through our website or through the apps directly.
- 🖥 Install a server by yourself on your hardware or by using one of our ready to use appliances
- 📦 Buy one of the awesome devices coming with a preinstalled Nextcloud
- 🏢 Find a service provider who hosts Nextcloud for you or your company
Enterprise? Public Sector or Education user? You may want to have a look into Nextcloud Enterprise provided by Nextcloud GmbH.
Get in touch 💬
You can also get support for Nextcloud!
Join the team 👪
There are many ways to contribute, of which development is only one! Find out how to get involved, including as a translator, designer, tester, helping others, and much more! 😍
Development setup 👩💻
- 🚀 Set up your local development environment
- 🐛 Pick a good first issue
- 👩🔧 Create a branch and make your changes. Remember to sign off your commits using
git commit -sm "Your commit message"
- ⬆ Create a pull request and
@mention
the people from the issue to review - 👍 Fix things that come up during a review
- 🎉 Wait for it to get merged!
Third-party components are handled as git submodules which have to be initialized first. So aside from the regular git checkout invoking git submodule update --init
or a similar command is needed, for details see Git documentation.
Several apps that are included by default in regular releases such as First run wizard or Activity are missing in master
and have to be installed manually by cloning them into the apps
subfolder.
Otherwise, git checkouts can be handled the same as release archives, by using the stable*
branches. Note they should never be used on production systems.
Working with front-end code 🏗
Building
We are moving more and more toward using Vue.js in the front-end, starting with Settings. For building the code on changes, use these terminal commands in the root folder:
# install dependencies
make dev-setup
# build for development
make build-js
# build for development and watch edits
make watch-js
# build for production with minification
make build-js-production
Committing changes
When making changes, also commit the compiled files!
We still use Handlebars templates in some places in Files and Settings. We will replace these step-by-step with Vue.js, but in the meantime, you need to compile them separately.
If you don’t have Handlebars installed yet, you can do it with this terminal command:
sudo npm install -g handlebars
Then inside the root folder of your local Nextcloud development installation, run this command in the terminal every time you changed a .handlebars
file to compile it:
./build/compile-handlebars-templates.sh
Before checking in JS changes, make sure to also build for production:
make build-js-production
Then add the compiled files for committing.
To save some time, to only rebuild for a specific app, use the following and replace the module with the app name:
MODULE=user_status make build-js-production
Please note that if you used make build-js
or make watch-js
before, you'll notice that a lot of files were marked as changed, so might need to clear the workspace first.
Working with back-end code 🏗
When changing back-end PHP code, in general, no additional steps are needed before checking in.
However, if new files were created, you will need to run the following command to update the autoloader files:
build/autoloaderchecker.sh
After that, please also include the autoloader file changes in your commits.
Tools we use 🛠
- 👀 BrowserStack for cross-browser testing
- 🌊 WAVE for accessibility testing
- 🚨 Lighthouse for testing performance, accessibility, and more
Contribution guidelines 📜
All contributions to this repository from June 16, 2016, and onward are considered to be licensed under the AGPLv3 or any later version.
Nextcloud doesn't require a CLA (Contributor License Agreement). The copyright belongs to all the individual contributors. Therefore we recommend that every contributor adds the following line to the header of a file if they changed it substantially:
@copyright Copyright (c) <year>, <your name> (<your email address>)
Please read the Code of Conduct. This document offers some guidance to ensure Nextcloud participants can cooperate effectively in a positive and inspiring atmosphere, and to explain how together we can strengthen and support each other.
Please review the [guidelines for contributing](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) to this repository.
More information how to contribute: https://nextcloud.com/contribute/
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Nextcloud README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.