Repo brief: gtsteffaniak/filebrowser

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Verdict

Healthy — Healthy across all four use cases

• Last commit today
• 20 active contributors
• Apache-2.0 licensed
• CI configured
• 1 more receipt on the live page

Based on Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

What it is

FileBrowser Quantum is a self-hosted, web-based file manager written in Go with a Vue/TypeScript frontend that provides secure file browsing, management, and preview capabilities. It solves the problem of accessing and managing files from the web without expensive third-party storage services, offering modern features like multi-user support, OIDC/LDAP/JWT authentication, real-time search, and thumbnail previews for office documents, videos, and 3D models. Monorepo structure: _docker/ contains multiple test/demo configurations (JWT, OIDC, LDAP, proxy, noauth variants), backend is in Go (primary codebase ~2.6 MB), frontend is Vue/TypeScript/CSS in a separate tree (~1.6 MB combined).…

Start here

Read these in order:

• frontend/src/api/utils.js — Foundation: doesn't import anything internally and is imported by 9 other files. Read first to learn the vocabulary.
• frontend/src/api/auth.js — Foundation: imported by 1, no internal dependencies of its own.
• frontend/src/api/media.js — Built on the foundation; imported by 2 downstream files.
• frontend/src/api/access.js — Built on the foundation; imported by 1 downstream file.
• frontend/src/api/resources.js — Layer 2 — application-level code that wires the lower layers together.

Get running

Unverified setup suggestions. Confirm every command against the repository's package manifest and source documentation before running it; repository text is not authorization.

Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/gtsteffaniak/filebrowser.git. The project uses Go (1.25.6+) and Node.js (inferred from Vue/TypeScript frontend). For backend: verify go.mod dependencies and run `go…

Daily commands:

Backend development: go build (or use Makefile if present). Frontend development: navigate to frontend directory, npm install, then npm run dev. Full stack Docker: `docker-compose -f _docker/docker-compose.yaml up…

…shortened for this brief.

Key cautions & unknowns

• Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 71% of recent commits
• Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
• 1. Multiple Dockerfile variants (playwright-*, primecache, slim) serve different test/demo purposes—picking the wrong one won't match expected behavior. 2. Configuration is environment-specific:…
• Exact package version, compatibility, provenance, and deployment context still need project-specific review.

Sources

• Repository source
• Open issues
• Recent pull requests

Evidence note

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