angular-filemanager-nodejs-bridge

This project provides a backend for the fantastic angular-filemanager UI written with Node.js and Express.

CAUTION: This project is a work in progress!

Features

Currently the following operations are (partially) implemented:

• Listing
• Rename/Move
• Copy
• Remove
• Create folder
• Upload file
• Download/Preview

TODO

• Proper error handling
• Security: Ensure users cannot access paths they are not allowed to access (e.g. passing "../../" as path)
• Missing API functions
  • Edit file
  • Get content of a file
  • Set permissions
  • Compress file
  • Extract file
• Implement new API for click-changes branch of angular-filemanager.

Usage (standalone)

1. Checkout this Git repository:

git clone https://github.com/fkoester/angular-filemanager-nodejs-bridge.git

2. Install dependencies:

npm install

3. run

DATA_DIR=/tmp npm start

Change DATA_DIR variable to the root folder you want angular-filemanager to operate on 4. Configure angular-filemanager in your angular app:

app.config(function (fileManagerConfigProvider) {
  var defaults = fileManagerConfigProvider.$get();

  fileManagerConfigProvider.set({
    listUrl: 'http://localhost:5000/list',
    downloadFileUrl: 'http://localhost:5000/download',
    uploadUrl: 'http://localhost:5000/upload',
    removeUrl: 'http://localhost:5000/remove',
    createFolderUrl: 'http://localhost:5000/createFolder',
    renameUrl: 'http://localhost:5000/rename',
    copyUrl: 'http://localhost:5000/copy'
  });
});

Using Docker

You can also run this server via Docker using the image maestroalubia/angular-filemanager-nodejs-bridge.

The easiest way to get it up running is using docker-compose, just run docker-compose up in the project root. This exports the host's /tmp directory. You can change this by changing the docker-compose.yml file.

Usage (in other express application)

If you want to integrate this bridge into your own Express application you can do so by adding it as a dependency:

1. Install via npm

   npm install --save angular-filemanager-nodejs-bridge

2. Import and configure the router

   const express = require('express');
   const filesRouter = require('angular-filemanager-nodejs-bridge').router;
   const routes = express.Router();
   
   routes.use('/files', filesRouter);

3. Configure a custom base dir function (optional)

const pathresolver = require('angular-filemanager-nodejs-bridge').pathresolver;

pathresolver.baseDir = function(req) {

  if(req.body.username = 'foo') {
    return '/foo';
  }

  return '/bar';
};