Self-hosted projects using JavaScript

Tiny Flask app to create encrypted, expiring secrets shareable via private links. Secrets are encrypted and deleted after viewing, expiration, or max attempts.

MITActively maintained

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Onetime Secret+1

Recipya is a simple recipe manager for collecting, importing and organizing recipes into cookbooks, digitizing paper recipes, converting units, and calculating nutrition.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Paprika Recipe Manager+6

Simple self-hosted bookmark service with React frontend, Fastify backend and SQLite. Docker-ready and optimized for low-resource devices like Raspberry Pi.

MITActively maintained

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Raindrop.io+12

Ruby on Rails document management server for uploading, organizing, encrypting and full-text searching PDF documents. Provides a REST API and mobile-friendly web UI.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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DocuWare+7

Interactive scratch-off maps to record visited countries, regions, or states with travel dates and linked photo albums. Lightweight Node.js + Express app with JSON storage and Docker support.

AGPL-3.0Likely dormant

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Polarsteps+1

Visualize full GitHub star histories beyond the 40k API limit. Shows daily and cumulative stars, compare repositories, export CSV/JSON, and cache results.

MITActively maintained

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Star History+1

Industrial low-code platform that extends Node-RED with an LLM-powered copilot, collaborative flow development, remote edge deployment, CI/CD and AI-assisted data transformation.

Actively maintained

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Microsoft Power Automate+9

Open-source genealogy software with a web interface, multilingual support, GEDCOM import/export, relationship calculations, per-person access control and templating.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Ancestry+3

Open-source, self-hosted toolbox for bookmarks, URL shortening, and encrypted image hosting, with optional hosted service and browser/mobile integrations.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Bitly+19

A modular, developer-friendly virtual tabletop that runs on Node.js/Electron, offering scenes, dynamic lighting, compendia and a rich module/system ecosystem.

Web app that uses your Lidarr library and Last.fm to surface similar artists, supports AI-driven prompts, real-time UI, and pushes additions back to Lidarr.

MITActively maintained

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Last.fm+1

Providence is the backend of CollectiveAccess: a PHP-based collections management system for cataloging complex metadata and media with search, GraphQL API, import/export and reporting.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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CONTENTdm+19

A lightweight Nextcloud app to create surveys and forms, visualize responses, and export results while keeping data on your Nextcloud instance.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Forms+12

Lightweight filesystem wiki engine using Git for history and Mycomarkup for content, suited for personal wikis, digital gardens and small teams.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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Atlassian Confluence+19

AnonymousOverflow is a lightweight Go service that proxies StackOverflow questions into a simplified, privacy-preserving, read-only interface served as server-side rendered HTML.

MPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Stack Overflow+1

Web-based global administration and ban management system for Valve Source engine games, with a PHP web panel, SourceMod plugins, and MySQL/MariaDB backend.

CouchCMS is a PHP-based lightweight CMS that converts static HTML/CSS templates into editable sites with cloned pages, forms, comments and RSS.

Actively maintained

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WordPress.com+12

IFM is a single-file web-based file manager (PHP + JavaScript) for browsing, editing, uploading, downloading and extracting archives with simple authentication and Docker support.

MITActively maintained

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cPanel File Manager+2

Generate a yearly listening report from your Jellyfin music server with client-side processing, privacy-first data handling, and Docker or static hosting options.

Slowing down

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Spotify+3

Mikochi is a minimalist remote file browser for self-hosted servers and NAS. Browse, fuzzy-search, upload, download (tar.gz), manage and stream files via a Go API and Preact frontend.

MITActively maintained

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FileBrowser+9

Ruby on Rails app for managing food cooperatives: product catalog, online ordering, accounting, member and job scheduling.

Actively maintained

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MarketMan+14

REDAXO is a lightweight, modular PHP CMS offering block/module-based content editing, a media pool, multilingual support, and an extensible AddOn system.

Actively maintained

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WordPress.com+10

Web application to manage, annotate, and share academic PDFs with full-text search, OCR, citation import, and team collaboration.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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Mendeley+12

Ghostboard is a minimal real-time text board that syncs text across devices via WebSocket and exposes a REST API and CLI for updates and retrievals.

MITSlowing down

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Pastebin+4

Dockwatch provides a web UI to monitor Docker containers, schedule and apply image updates, send configurable notifications, run commands, and perform mass container maintenance.

MITActively maintained

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+6

Scalable email archiving solution with tamper-evident retention, full-text search, legal hold, deduplication and access controls for compliance.

Actively maintained

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MailStore Server+1

A lightweight, privacy-first alternative frontend for Goodreads that scrapes and proxies Goodreads pages, offers search and PWA support, and requires no signup.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Goodreads

Open-source web-based ticketing system for customer support and IT service management with automation, knowledgebase, and CMDB extension.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Zendesk+19

Decentralized, browser-first chat focused on privacy and peer-to-peer interactions. Supports end-to-end encryption, WebRTC file sharing, voice/video calls, mixed-reality spaces and a webtop environment.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Slack+10

Lurker is a self-hosted, read-only Reddit client with a mobile-first UI, minimal JavaScript, sqlite storage and account/invite subscription management.

MITSlowing down

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Reddit+2