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Smallweb – A self-hostable personal cloud inspired by CGI-bin

3 pointsby pomdtr6 months ago

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pomdtr6 months ago
Smallweb is inspired both by serverless platforms (e.g. cloudflare workers and val.town), and older standards like cgi-bin. To create a new app, you just create a new file, and you&#x27;re basically done.<p>Try out the demo at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.smallweb.live" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.smallweb.live</a><p>Smallweb is super easy to self-host (you can even keep it local to your device). It is distributed as a single golang binary, and there is an install script allowing you to set it up on a new VPS with a single command (https work out of the box, no need to set DNS records):<p>curl -sSL <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;install.smallweb.run&#x2F;vps.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;install.smallweb.run&#x2F;vps.sh</a> | sh<p>Since the app is based on deno, it supports url imports. It allows you to host complex apps like vscode or excalidraw by writing 3 lines of code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smallweb.run&#x2F;examples#excalidraw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smallweb.run&#x2F;examples#excalidraw</a><p>We also have a small community at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.smallweb.run" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.smallweb.run</a> !