Self-hosted projects using JavaScript

Wagtail is an open-source CMS built on Django and Python, offering an editor-friendly admin UI, flexible content modeling with StreamField, and optional headless APIs.

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Adobe Experience Manager+19

Snapdrop is a progressive web app for peer-to-peer local file sharing between nearby devices in the browser, inspired by AirDrop, with optional self-hosting.

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Apple AirDrop+5

Self-hosted music streaming server with a modern web UI, Subsonic-compatible API, multi-user support, and on-the-fly transcoding for large libraries.

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Plex+13

Invidious is a lightweight, privacy-focused alternative front-end for YouTube with subscriptions, playlists, and an API—without Google accounts, ads, or tracking.

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YouTube

BookStack is a simple documentation and wiki platform with a WYSIWYG and optional Markdown editor, full-text search, permissions, and integrated authentication.

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Atlassian Confluence+16

Etherpad is a web-based real-time collaborative editor with chat, rich-text formatting, and a plugin framework for customization and integrations.

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Etherpad Cloud+9

Open-source, web-based LaTeX editor for real-time collaboration, project management, and PDF compilation in the browser.

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Overleaf

Koel is a web-based personal music streaming server with a modern player UI, multi-user support, playlists, library management, and optional mobile apps.

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Plex+12

Open-source CLI for recording, replaying and live-streaming terminal sessions using lightweight asciicast files and an embeddable web player.

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Screen Studio+1

Self-hosted web app to browse, read, download, and manage eBooks from an existing Calibre library, with OPDS catalogs, user permissions, and device sync options.

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BookFusion+4

Open-source eCommerce platform for B2C and B2B with a modular architecture, headless APIs, and support for multi-store, multi-currency, and extensibility via extensions.

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Shopify+10

JupyterLab is an extensible web-based IDE for Jupyter notebooks, code, terminals, and data exploration with rich outputs and a plugin-based interface.

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Anaconda Notebooks+15

NodeBB is a modern forum platform with real-time discussions, built-in chat, SSO options, plugins, and flexible theming, backed by Redis, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL.

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Discourse+14

Jackett is a self-hosted indexer proxy that integrates many torrent trackers and exposes them through a unified Torznab/Newznab-compatible API and RSS feeds for apps like...

OneDev is a self-hosted DevOps platform combining Git hosting, CI/CD pipelines, Kanban-style issue tracking, code review, and built-in package registries.

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GitLab+15

Self-hosted Zigbee-to-MQTT bridge that lets you control Zigbee devices without vendor gateways and integrate them with home automation platforms via MQTT.

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Tuya Zigbee Gateway+16

Maxun is an open source no-code platform to build web scraping robots that extract structured data and expose websites as APIs, markdown, or automated pipelines.

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Apify+1

LibreSpeed is a lightweight, open-source, self-hosted internet speed test implemented in JavaScript. It measures download, upload, ping and jitter and supports PHP/Node b...

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Speedtest by Ookla+3

Open-source backup client for encrypted, compressed, incremental backups to cloud storage and remote servers via SFTP, WebDAV, and more.

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Duplicacy (Commercial)+15

Fast, lightweight BitTorrent client with desktop apps, a headless daemon, and a web UI for remote torrent management on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

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BitTorrent+2

Apache Druid is a real-time analytics (OLAP) database delivering sub-second queries on streaming and batch data with high concurrency at scale.

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Imply+10

FreshRSS is a fast, multi-user RSS/Atom feed aggregator with tagging, search, OPML import/export, WebSub push updates, and optional web scraping for sites without feeds.

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Feedly+12

Habitica is an open-source gamified task manager turning Habits, Dailies, and To-Dos into RPG quests with avatars, gear and social features.

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Habitica+15

Open-source database DevSecOps tool for managing schema migrations, SQL review, audit logging, access control, and data masking across multiple databases.

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Datical (Liquibase Enterprise)+5

Automatisch is an open-source Zapier alternative for building no-code automations that connect apps and services while keeping data on your own infrastructure.

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Zapier+14

Self-hosted Dropbox-like web file manager that connects to SFTP, S3, WebDAV, SMB/NFS, Git and more, with sharing links, plugins, and SSO integration.

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Dropbox+19

Sonarr is a smart PVR for TV series that monitors RSS/indexers, grabs releases via Usenet or BitTorrent clients, and organizes your library with renaming and upgrades.

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Channels DVR+2

Self-hosted movie collection manager that monitors RSS, searches indexers, and automates downloading, importing, renaming, and quality upgrades via Usenet or torrents.

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SickChill+1

Self-host Google Fonts easily: select variants and subsets, download font files (woff2, woff, ttf, eot, svg) and generate matching CSS snippets via web UI or API.

Element is a Matrix client for secure team messaging and collaboration, offering end-to-end encrypted chats and calls with interoperability across the Matrix network.

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Element Matrix (Hosted)+19