Storage WebApp

A self-hosted storage web application for securely sharing files between your work and personal machines.

This project is built using:

• Go for the backend API
• Svelte for the frontend interface
• Azure Blob Storage for file storage
• An invitation-based authentication system

Features

• Upload and access files through a clean, responsive UI
• Admin-controlled access via invitation tokens
• Persistent file storage with Azure Blob Storage
• Full-stack Dockerized setup

Setup & Installation

Prerequisites

• Docker
• An Azure Blob Storage account

Environment Variables

Create two .env files — one in the backend/ folder and one in the frontend/ folder.

backend/.env

env PORT=8080 JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret

Azure Blob Storage

• AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT=your_azure_account_name
• AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY=your_azure_access_key
• AZURE_STORAGE_CONTAINER=your_container_name

Admin Login

• ADMIN_USERNAME=your_admin_username
• ADMIN_PASSWORD=your_admin_password

PostgreSQL

• POSTGRES_USER=your_db_username
• POSTGRES_PASSWORD=your_db_password
• POSTGRES_DB=cloudstorage
• DATABASE_URL=postgres://your_db_username:your_db_password@db:5432/cloudstorage?sslmode=disable

frontend/.env

VITE_API_URL=http://localhost:8080/api

Running the app

Once your .env files are configured:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/storage-webapp.git cd storage-webapp docker compose up --build

The frontend will be available at http://localhost:3000

The backend API will be running at http://localhost:8080/api

The PostgreSQL service will be running internally on port 5432