hub/README.md

NE Hub

One installable web app (PWA) for Seafile, OnlyOffice and your four webmail accounts. Mobile-first; bottom tabs on phones, side rail on iPad and desktop (tuned for 12.9" at 1024 and 1366 wide). On a tablet or computer the menu collapses to icons (button at the bottom of the rail) or hides completely (the menu button at the top, or Ctrl/Cmd+B); the choice is remembered on that device.

Configure

cp .env.example .env     # set ONLYOFFICE_JWT_SECRET (same value as the Document Server) and PUBLIC_URL

PUBLIC_URL must be an address the OnlyOffice server can reach (not localhost): it posts saved edits back there.

Run

docker compose up -d --build     # http://localhost:8080
# or: node server.js

Put it behind your reverse proxy with HTTPS (needed for "Add to Home Screen" and the service worker), e.g. hub.necloud.us. Settings: SEAFILE_URL, ONLYOFFICE_URL env vars in docker-compose.yml.

What each part does

• Files: signs in with your Seafile account, browses libraries, uploads, creates folders, downloads, deletes. The server proxies /sf/* to Seafile because Seafile sends no CORS headers. Token lives in the browser only. Office files open in Seafile's own OnlyOffice integration.
• Edit here: opens docs inside the app via OnlyOffice. The server signs each editor config with the JWT secret and saves edits back to Seafile.
• Sign-in: the whole app sits behind a passkey (WebAuthn). First run: open the site and enter the setup code (HUB_SETUP_CODE, or the one printed in the server log) to create a passkey; add more devices from Settings. Passkeys and the session secret live in /data (a Docker volume).
• People: you (the admin) add people in Settings -> People, choose which tabs each may use (Files, Office, Music, Audiobooks, Podcast, Podcast Admin, Mail, Calendar, Tasks, Search; Home and Settings are always on), and give them a one-time invite code to create their own passkey. Everyone's tasks, NE Hub events, settings, iCloud connection, calendar links and Plex sign-in are private to them (/data/users/<id>/). Limits are enforced by the server, not just hidden. You can change a person's tabs, sign them out everywhere, turn them off, or delete them and their data. An existing single-user install becomes the admin automatically on first start (the original files are left in place as a backup).
• Files: a Finder/Explorer-style browser. Tap Select (or long-press on a phone, Cmd/Ctrl-click or Shift-click on a computer) to pick several items and Move, Copy (to any folder in any library, with a New folder button in the picker) or Delete them together. Rename checks for clashes, sort by name/date/size/kind (folders stay on top), filter a folder, right-click for the item menu, and keys: Ctrl/Cmd-A, Delete, F2, Enter, Esc. Drag files or whole folders from your computer onto the page (or onto a folder in the list) to upload; uploads show progress, retry on a bad connection, and can be cancelled. Drag items onto a folder or a breadcrumb to move them (hold Alt/Option to copy). Drag a single file out to your desktop to download it (Chrome and Edge only; browsers cannot drag out folders or several files). Also share links, image/PDF/video/audio preview, and New document/spreadsheet/presentation.
• Calendar: month grid and agenda. Add, edit and delete events:
  • NE Hub calendar: events you create are stored in /data/events.json and published as a private subscribe link (Manage calendars -> copy link) so Outlook, Google or Apple Calendar can show them (read-only there).
  • iCloud (two-way): connect with an Apple ID and an app-specific password (appleid.apple.com). Credentials are encrypted in /data/icloud.json; only *.icloud.com is contacted. Edits keep alarms and attendees intact.
  • ICS links (Google secret address, Outlook/M365 published calendar) are read-only.
• Tasks: to-do lists stored in NE Hub (/data/tasks.json), with due dates, notes and completion. If the connected iCloud account exposes reminder lists over CalDAV they appear too and sync both ways. Apple hides Reminders lists that were upgraded for iOS 13+, so for most accounts only NE Hub lists are available.
• Settings sync: your preferences (mail addresses, audiobooks sign-in (encrypted), Plex library, Office save location, calendar/task views, recent files) are saved on the server in /data/settings.json and shared by every device. The Seafile sign-in token is saved there too (encrypted), so Settings shows Seafile as signed in on every device. Only the music queue stays in the browser.
• Search: libraries, file names (scans libraries if Seafile has no search index) and Plex artists/albums/tracks.
• Music: Plex player. Sign in goes through plex.tv (no password handled), the server proxies your Plex server and adds the token itself, and a mini player keeps playing as you move between tabs; the current and next two tracks are downloaded in full so changing songs is instant and a slow or lost connection does not stop playback; the Music tab shows a Now Playing card with the controls above the albums, artists and playlists; the queue (play next / add to queue) and position are remembered.
• Audiobooks: embeds audiobooks.necloud.us in a frame that keeps playing while you use other tabs, with reload, full screen and open-in-new-tab buttons. Back-door sign-in: set AUDIOBOOKS_LOGIN_LINK to the site's secret link (the key is part of it). The frame loads /api/audiobooks/enter, which checks the person may use the Audiobooks tab and redirects to that link, so the key stays in the server's environment and never appears in the app's page, script or logs. Anyone holding the link is signed in there with full access, so keep it out of the repo and .env backups. Or set AUDIOBOOKS_SSO_SECRET (and optionally AUDIOBOOKS_SSO_URL, default <AUDIOBOOKS_URL>/sso) for short-lived signed links: ?token=<body>.<sig>, where body is base64url JSON {u, id, exp, n} and sig is the base64url HMAC-SHA256 of body. Without either, the plain site opens and the saved username can be copied.
• Signal: your Signal chats inside the app, on desktop-class screens only (a window at least 900 px wide with a mouse or trackpad; phones and touch tablets don't see it). Besides the Signal tab there is a chat button on every screen that opens a panel over whatever you are doing (close it with the x; the expand button opens the full page). New messages get your attention with a toast, a chime, the unread count in the browser tab title and on the installed app's icon, and (if you switch it on in Settings -> Signal alerts) a desktop notification when the app is in the background; sound and notifications are saved per device. It talks to your account through the community signal-cli-rest-api bridge, which is one more linked device of your account (like Signal Desktop; not an official Signal product). The signal container in docker-compose.yml runs it; remove that service and the hub's SIGNAL_API_URL line to skip Signal. First time: open the Signal tab, then on your phone Signal -> Settings -> Linked devices -> Link new device and scan the code. You can send and receive text, photos, files, voice messages (played, not recorded), replies, reactions, groups and read receipts; there are no calls. Only messages from after linking appear (Signal does not copy older ones to a new device) and they are kept in /data/signal. The link keys live in the nehub-signal volume (a Docker volume, not a host folder: the bridge runs as user 1000 and a root-owned host folder gives "permission denied"; if you do want a folder, chown -R 1000:1000 it first): whoever gets into your server can read your chats, so only give the Signal tab to people you would trust with your Signal (it is one shared account, admins always have it). Signal drops a linked device that is not connected for about a month; the hub stays connected, so this only matters if the stack is switched off.
• Podcast and Podcast Admin: launchers that open PODCAST_URL (a home-network address) and VERSE_URL in their own tabs.
• Office: embeds onlyoffice.necloud.us in a frame, with an "open in new tab" fallback if it blocks framing.
• Mail: Cypht comes with the project (a second container in docker-compose.yml), so the Mail tab can open a full webmail inside the app (the shortcut cards are the default page; the Open webmail button there opens it, and the envelope button in the webmail goes back), built for several accounts at once (iCloud, Gmail, Outlook.com, Office365, Yahoo, Fastmail and others are presets, plus any IMAP server) with combined views of them all. The hub passes /webmail/ through to it, so it is not exposed to the internet, sits behind your passkey sign-in and shares the hub's address (which is what lets it be framed). Set CYPHT_PASSWORD (any password you choose; required) in .env or your stack; the hub uses it to sign in to Cypht for you, so you never see a second login. Then, once, in the Mail tab: Add an E-mail Account, pick the provider, and follow the steps (iCloud, Yahoo and most others: your address and an app password, e.g. appleid.apple.com -> App-Specific Passwords; Gmail needs 2-step verification, then Google account -> App passwords). Everything is kept in the nehub-cypht volume. Everyone who has the Mail tab shares this one Cypht account; for separate mailboxes give only the people who should share it the tab, or run docker exec <cypht container> php /usr/local/share/cypht/scripts/create_account.php <name> <password> and sign in as that person in Cypht (the automatic sign-in is then skipped by logging out of Cypht once). The default Mail page is the Gmail / Outlook.com / Microsoft 365 / iCloud web shortcuts, and Settings -> Mail apps chooses which of those cards show. Sign in with Google or Microsoft instead of app passwords (optional): create an OAuth app and put its ID and secret in the environment of the cypht service (GMAIL_CLIENT_ID / GMAIL_CLIENT_SECRET from console.cloud.google.com, with <your hub address>/webmail/?page=home as the authorized redirect URI; OUTLOOK_CLIENT_ID / OUTLOOK_CLIENT_SECRET for a personal Outlook.com account and OFFICE365_CLIENT_ID / OFFICE365_CLIENT_SECRET plus M365_TENANT for a work or school account, from a Microsoft Entra app registration with the same redirect URI and the delegated permissions IMAP.AccessAsUser.All, SMTP.Send, offline_access). Set PUBLIC_URL (your hub address) so the redirect address is right. The provider's sign-in page cannot be shown inside a frame, so that step opens in the whole window and returns you to the Mail tab. The Gmail and Microsoft sign-ins have not been tried against the real providers; the Microsoft ones use a patched permission list because Cypht's own preset asks for a retired one. To use a webmail you run elsewhere instead, set WEBMAIL_URL (it must allow being framed: no X-Frame-Options, and Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors https://<your hub address>). With neither, Mail is just the shortcut cards.

Install on iPhone / iPad (PWA)

Open the site in Safari (it must be the https:// address), tap Share -> Add to Home Screen. The home-screen app has proper icons (iPhone, iPad), a splash screen for each iPhone and iPad size (including iPad Pro 12.9"), and opens full screen without Safari's bars. iOS keeps a separate sign-in for the home-screen app, so sign in once inside it with your passkey; it then stays signed in (SESSION_DAYS, default 180, renewed whenever you use it). Regenerate the artwork with python3 tools/make-icons.py (needs Pillow).

Build and deploy with Gitea

.gitea/workflows/build.yml builds the container on every push to main (and v* tags) and pushes it to git.necloud.us/nate/hub (tags: latest, short commit sha, git tag), and the webmail container from cypht/ (the official Cypht plus the hub's settings) to git.necloud.us/nate/hub-cypht. amd64 (x86) only.

One-time setup in Gitea: create an access token with the write:package scope, then add it to the repo under Settings -> Actions -> Secrets as REGISTRY_TOKEN (optionally REGISTRY_USER). The runner needs Docker.

On the server:

cp .env.example .env                # fill in secrets, PUBLIC_URL, CYPHT_PASSWORD (choose one), etc.
docker compose pull && docker compose up -d
docker compose logs hub | grep "Setup code"   # first sign-in: create your passkey