Home Cloud

A local file hosting system build on top of Node.js & Express.js.

Use Cases

Home Cloud can be used for home members to interact with home sharing data under local network. With Home Cloud installed, you are able to use it as file transfer station. You are able to transfer data between Mobile and Desktop using only browsers.

For media files you captured in your travel such as sound of bird tweeting, image of sea view or video of sunrise, if you would like to keep and stream them locally, use Home Cloud.

Live Demo

https://home-cloud.herokuapp.com

Note: File uploading will be rejected for external ip request to avoid data flooding. Please try this feature locally. You can edit the whitelist for trusted IP address to upload content. * in canUpload will enable all ip request for uploading.

Get it Started

Choose one laptop as Home Cloud running environment then download and install Node.js through https://nodejs.org/en/. After that, download Home Cloud source code.

> cd home-cloud
> npm install
> npm run start

# server will listen to port 3000
# check your laptop IP_ADDRESS 
# so other devices in your home network can access it through IP_ADDRESS:3000

Folder Structure

├── public
│   ├── Audio   # where audios hosted
│   ├── Video   # where videos hosted 
│   ├── Photo   # where photos hosted
│   ├── Doc     # where documents hosted
│   └── Other   # where files such as zip files or raw files hosted
├── ...

Implementation List

• Implement file sharing/stream function
• Implement file uploading function
• Implement whitelist/canUpload to enable file uploading for authorized IP address
• Implement whitelist/canDelete to enable file deleting for authorized IP address
• Implement automatic image slider
• Compress preview image to increase performance
  
  
  
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