Install
Cozy Light requires Node.js to be installed. Once Node is setup, a single command line is required:
Distros
Cozy Light allows you to configure your server by installing apps and adding plugins. To help you start with common use cases of personal servers, Cozy Light provide you with set of apps and plugins called distributions.
Green blocks are applications and blue blocks are plugins.
Personal Cloud
cozy-light set-password
website
Video Games
Run
To run Cozy Light server, execute the following command. By default, it will listen on the 19104 port.
Apps
Here is a list of available applications for the Cozy Light platform.
| cozy-labs/calendar | Alarm and events manager |
| cozy-labs/files | File storage |
| cozy-labs/contacts | Contact book |
| cozy-labs/tasky | Simple and efficient task manager; |
| maboiteaspam/ma-clef-usb | Another file storage. |
| require html5-apps plugin | |
| frankrousseau/coffee-snake | Snake game |
| frankrousseau/CrappyBird | Flappy bird clone. |
| require docker plugin | |
| frankrousseau/couchdb | Couchdb database, can be useful for your PouchDB-based apps |
| frankrousseau/wordpress | Wordpress blog engine. |
| frankrousseau/ghost | Ghost blog engine. |
Example:
cozy-light install cozy-labs/filesPlugins
Here is a list of available plugins for the Cozy Light platform.
| cozy-labs/cozy-light-simple-dashboard | Minimalist dashboard for the platform. |
| maboiteaspam/cozy-homepage | Redirect root url to Cozy Dashboard app. |
| cozy-labs/cozy-light-auth | Add auth capabilities to Cozy Light. |
| cozy-labs/cozy-light-basic-auth | Add basic auth capabilities to Cozy Light. |
| cozy-labs/cozy-light-html5-apps | To manage HTML5 apps like classic apps. |
| cozy-labs/cozy-light-docker | Experimental plugin to manage docker containers like classic apps. |
| cozy-labs/cozy-light-domains | Link a domain name to a static app. |
| cozy-labs/cozy-light-githooks | Reinstall an app when a commit occurs on the Github repository. |
Example:
cozy-light add-plugin cozy-labs/cozy-light-authCommands
| install | Install given application. |
| uninstall | Uninstall given application. |
| add-plugin | Install given plugin. |
| remove-plugin | Uninstall given plugin. |
| install-distro | Install given distribution. |
| enable | Enable given application/plugin. |
| disable | Disable given application/plugin. |
| display-config | Display Current configuration. |
About
Cozy Light is the result of the many feedback we get about Cozy (a full-featured personal cloud to host on your server). Many developers asked for the same thing: less friction at install, less friction to build new apps and the capability to run it on the Raspberry Pi.
Because of the many features of Cozy we were not able to provide that without removing a lot of things. To not deceive our current users, we decided to build a new project dedicated to developers and hackers.
It takes the basics of Cozy to make it super simple to start with. Only Node.js and NPM is required to install and run it. Its memory consumption makes it good for low resource computers. Finally, the fact it relies on an embedded database make application development possible with a minimalist development environment (just Node.js).
Last but not least, we wanted to allow the community to get involved in the project development. We made the codebase short (< 2000 lines of code) and we integrated a plugin system.
The first results are good, many people enjoy using it. About contribution, the community sent us bug/enhancement reports, we got several nice pull requests and one contributor was so active that he joined us as a core contributor! And all of that with close to zero promotion.
So, if you like that project and want to share thoughts about it, feel free to open an issue or a post on our forum.
Cozy Light is brought to you by Cozy Cloud and the Cozy Community