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**12.01.2021: Fling has moved to the attic**
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Fling was a good learning experiment for a non-trivial React app with a REST
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backend. However, it never really got any traction and I'm not using it anymore.
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Other projects are more important to me and maintaining Fling does not make any
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sense. As of now docker containers are deleted and the artifacts are not
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distributed anymore. You are free to fork and build your own version but no more
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work will be done in this repository.
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Alternatives:
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- If you are looking for mature self-hosted file sharing solution,
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[ownCloud](https://owncloud.com/) is in many ways similar to Fling and then
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some.
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- If you want an even simpler solution for sharing files over http,
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[dirl](https://github.com/arminfriedl/dirl) might meet your needs.
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# Fling
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Fling is a self-hosted file share. It is simple like USB without missing out on
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the good parts of a web app:
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- Just drop files on a Fling and share the URL
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- Choose your own name for your share-URL
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- Share a direct download link
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- Let others upload files
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- Protect your fling by a password - no registration required
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- Let a fling expire after a date or a number of clicks
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# API
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Fling is distributed as both, a backend service and a web interface. You can use
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the backend on its own with any [HTTP client](examples).
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Per default Fling publishes a Swagger UI page and an OpenAPI spec. You can find
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them here:
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``` http
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http://<host>:<port>/swagger-ui.html
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http://<host>:<port>/v3/api-docs
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```
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If starting the fling container locally, the default `<host>:<port>` is
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http://localhost:3000. You can also find a recent version of it via
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https://fling.friedl.net/swagger-ui.html and
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https://fling.friedl.net/v3/api-docs.
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# Starting Fling from Docker
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A Fling container is provided at https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/arminfriedl/fling.
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1. Run `docker run --rm -p3000:3000 arminfriedl/fling`
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2. Go to the default http://localhost:3000
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3. Log in with `adminName:adminPassword`.
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## Configuring Fling
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The Fling container can be configured by environment variables.
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The web interface configuration ([config.js](web/fling/public/config.js)/[config.js.template](container/var/www/fling/config.js.template)) will be
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filled by `envsubst` when the container starts up.
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``` sh
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# The base URL of the Fling API service
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FLING_API_BASE=http://localhost:3000
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# Log level of the application
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FLING_LOG_LEVEL=warn
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# Max. upload size in bytes. Checked on client side.
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FLING_FILESIZE=209715200
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```
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The Fling service configuration is a standard spring configuration. It can be
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set by environement variables or any other [configuration externalization supported by spring boot]
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(https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/spring-boot-features.html#boot-features-external-config)).
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Refer to the [application-prod.yml](service/fling/src/main/resources/application-prod.yml) for configuration options.
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