/flame

Flame is self-hosted startpage for your server. Easily manage your apps and bookmarks with built-in editors.

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Flame

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Description

Flame is self-hosted startpage for your server. Its design is inspired (heavily) by SUI. Flame is very easy to setup and use. With built-in editors it allows you to setup your very own appliaction hub in no time - no file editing necessary.

Technology

  • Backend
    • Node.js + Express
    • Sequelize ORM + SQLite
  • Frontend
    • React
    • Redux
    • TypeScript
  • Deployment
    • Docker

Development

# clone repository
git clone https://github.com/pawelmalak/flame
cd flame

# run only once
npm run dev-init

# start backend and frontend development servers
npm run dev

Installation

With Docker (recommended)

Building images

# build image for amd64 only
docker build -t flame .

# build multiarch image for amd64, armv7 and arm64
# building failed multiple times with 2GB memory usage limit so you might want to increase it
docker buildx build \
  --platform linux/arm/v7,linux/arm64,linux/amd64 \
  -f Dockerfile.multiarch \
  -t flame:multiarch .

Deployment

# run container
docker run -p 5005:5005 -v /path/to/data:/app/data flame

Without Docker

Follow instructions from wiki: Installation without Docker

Functionality

  • Applications
    • Create, update, delete and organize applications using GUI
    • Pin your favourite apps to homescreen

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  • Bookmarks
    • Create, update, delete and organize bookmarks and categories using GUI
    • Pin your favourite categories to homescreen

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  • Weather

    • Get current temperature, cloud coverage and weather status with animated icons

  • Themes

    • Customize your page by choosing from 12 color themes

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Usage

Setting up weather module

  1. Obtain API Key from Weather API.

    Free plan allows for 1M calls per month. Flame is making less then 3K API calls per month.

  2. Get lat/long for your location. You can get them from latlong.net.
  3. Enter and save data. Weather widget will now update and should be visible on Home page.

Supported URL formats for applications and bookmarks

Rules

  • URL starts with http://
    • Format: http://www.domain.com, http://domain.com
    • Redirect: {dest}
  • URL starts with https://
    • Format: https://www.domain.com, https://domain.com
    • Redirect: https://{dest}
  • URL without protocol
    • Format: www.domain.com, domain.com, sub.domain.com, local, ip, ip:port
    • Redirect: http://{dest}

Support

If you want to support development of Flame and my upcoming self-hosted and open source projects you can use the following link:

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