Flame

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 application hub in no time - no file editing necessary.

Technology

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

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)

Docker Hub link

docker pull pawelmalak/flame:latest

# for ARM architecture (e.g. RaspberryPi)
docker pull pawelmalak/flame:multiarch

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

Docker-Compose

version: '2.1'
services:
  flame:
    image: pawelmalak/flame:latest
    container_name: flame
    volumes:
      - <host_dir>:/app/data
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock # optional but required for Docker integration feature
    ports:
      - 5005:5005
    restart: unless-stopped

Skaffold

# use skaffold
skaffold dev

Without Docker

Follow instructions from wiki: Installation without Docker

Functionality

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

• Bookmarks
  • Create, update, delete and organize bookmarks and categories using GUI
  • Pin your favourite categories to the homescreen
  • Import html bookmarks (experimental)

• Weather

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

• Themes

  • Customize your page by choosing from 15 color themes

Usage

Search bar

Searching

To use search bar you need to type your search query with selected prefix. For example, to search for "what is docker" using google search you would type: /g what is docker.

You can change where to open search results (same/new tab) in the settings

For list of supported search engines, shortcuts and more about searching functionality visit project wiki.

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.

Docker integration

In order to use the Docker integration, each container must have the following labels:

labels:
  - flame.type=application # "app" works too
  - flame.name=My container
  - flame.url=https://example.com
  - flame.icon=icon-name # optional, default is "docker"
# - flame.icon=custom to make changes in app. ie: custom icon upload

"Use Docker API" option must be enabled for this to work. You can find it in Settings > Other > Docker section

You can also set up different apps in the same label adding ; between each one.

labels:
  - flame.type=application
  - flame.name=First App;Second App
  - flame.url=https://example1.com;https://example2.com
  - flame.icon=icon-name1;icon-name2

If you want to use a remote docker host follow this instructions in the host:

• Open the file /lib/systemd/system/docker.service, search for ExecStart and edit the value

ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd -H tcp://0.0.0.0:${PORT} -H unix:///var/run/docker.sock

The above command will bind the docker engine server to the Unix socket as well as TCP port of your choice. “0.0.0.0” means docker-engine accepts connections from all IP addresses.

• Restart the daemon and Docker service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo service docker restart

• Test if it is working

curl http://${IP}:${PORT}/version

Kubernetes integration

In order to use the Kubernetes integration, each ingress must have the following annotations:

metadata:
  annotations:
  - flame.pawelmalak/type=application # "app" works too
  - flame.pawelmalak/name=My container
  - flame.pawelmalak/url=https://example.com
  - flame.pawelmalak/icon=icon-name # optional, default is "kubernetes"

"Use Kubernetes Ingress API" option must be enabled for this to work. You can find it in Settings > Other > Kubernetes section

Import HTML Bookmarks (Experimental)

• Requirements
  • python3
  • pip packages: Pillow, beautifulsoup4
• Backup your db.sqlite before running script!
• Known Issues:
  • generated icons are sometimes incorrect

pip3 install Pillow, beautifulsoup4

cd flame/.dev
python3 bookmarks_importer.py --bookmarks <path to bookmarks.html> --data <path to flame data folder>

Custom CSS and themes

See project wiki for Custom CSS and Custom theme with CSS.