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Key Features

Getting Started

To install Filestash, head to the Getting started guide. If you want to leverage plugins, head over to the inventory, or learn about developing your own plugins.

If you want guidance and expert help on your file management problem, book a call and let's figure out if Filestash is the right platform for you.

Vision & Philosophy

Our goal is simple: to build the best file management platform ever made. Period. But "best" means different things to different people, so we made everything pluggable. The core defines interfaces, plugins implement them. Disagree with our implementation? Write your own. Anything that isn't a fundamental truth of the universe and might spark a debate belongs in a plugin. Literally every piece listed in the key features is a plugin you can swap for another implementation or remove entirely.

Say you want to give your users a Dropbox like experience on top of your existing FTP server (remember the FTP guy during the Dropbox launch on HN?). All the FTP plugin does is implement this interface:

type IBackend interface {
	Ls(path string) ([]os.FileInfo, error)           // list files in a folder
	Stat(path string) (os.FileInfo, error)           // file stat
	Cat(path string) (io.ReadCloser, error)          // download a file
	Mkdir(path string) error                         // create a folder
	Rm(path string) error                            // remove something
	Mv(from string, to string) error                 // rename something
	Save(path string, file io.Reader) error          // save a file
	Touch(path string) error                         // create a file

	// I have omitted 2 other methods, a first one to enable connections reuse and
	// another one to declare what should the login form be like.
}

There are interfaces you can implement for every key component of Filestash: from storage, to authentication, authorisation, custom apps, search, thumbnailing, frontend patches, middleware, endpoint creation and a few others documented in the plugin development guide.

To see what's currently installed in your instance, head over to /about. The inventory of plugins is documented here

Support

• Commercial Users → support contract
• For individuals:
  • #filestash on IRC (libera.chat)
  • Bitcoin: 3LX5KGmSmHDj5EuXrmUvcg77EJxCxmdsgW
  • Open Collective

Credits

Filestash stands on the shoulder of: contributors, folks developing awesome libraries, a whole bunch of C stuff (the C standard library, libjpeg, libpng, libgif, libraw and many more), fontawesome, material, Browser stack to let us test on real devices, and the many guys from Nebraska and elsewhere who have been thanklessly maintaining the critical pieces that Filestash sits on top: