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La Suite Drive: Collaborative File Sharing

LaSuite Drive, where your files become collaborative assets through seamless teamwork.

LaSuite Drive is an open-source tool focused on file storage, editing and sharing with granular access control.

Why use Drive ❓

LaSuite Drive empowers teams to securely store, share, and collaborate on files while maintaining full control over their data through a user-friendly, open-source platform.

Store

• Store your files securely in a centralized location
• Access your files from anywhere with our web-based interface

Find

• Powerful search capabilities to quickly locate files and folders
• Organized file structure with intuitive navigation and filtering

Collaborate

• Share files and folders with your team members
• Granular access control to ensure your information is secure and only shared with the right people
• Create workspaces to organize team collaboration and manage shared resources

Features

• File & folder upload with drag & drop support
• File preview for PDF, images, audio, and video directly in the browser
• Online document editing via WOPI protocol (compatible with Collabora, OnlyOffice)
• Advanced sharing management with configurable permission levels
• Granular access control to share files and folders with specific users
• Invite external users to access items even without an account
• Trash bin with restore and permanent deletion support
• Malware detection on uploaded files
• File Picker SDK for embedding Drive into third-party applications
• Customizable frontend style
• Storage usage metrics and configurable quotas

Getting started 🔧

Self-host

• 🚀 Easy to install, scalable and secure file storage solution

LaSuite Drive is easy to install on your own servers

We use Kubernetes for our production instance. Check out the docs to get detailed instructions and examples.

For now we only have a documentation to install it on Kubernetes. We will be more than happy to improve this documentation with other methods. Feel free to make a PR !

Questions? Open an issue on GitHub or join our Matrix community.

Known instances

We hope to see many more, here is an incomplete list of public LaSuite Drive instances. Feel free to make a PR to add ones that are not listed below🙏

Local Development (for contributors)

Run LaSuite Drive locally for development and testing.

Prerequisite

Make sure you have a recent version of Docker and Docker Compose installed on your laptop:

$ docker -v
  Docker version 27.5.1, build 9f9e405

$ docker compose version
  Docker Compose version v2.32.4

⚠️ You may need to run the following commands with sudo but this can be avoided by assigning your user to the docker group.

Bootstrap the project

The easiest way to start working on the project is to use GNU Make:

$ make bootstrap

This command builds the app-dev and frontend-dev containers, installs dependencies, performs database migrations and compile translations. It's a good idea to use this command each time you are pulling code from the project repository to avoid dependency-related or migration-related issues.

Your Docker services should now be up and running! 🎉

You can access the project by going to http://localhost:3000.

You will be prompted to log in. The default credentials are:

username: drive
password: drive

Note that if you need to run them afterward, you can use the eponym Make rule:

$ make run

You can check all available Make rules using:

$ make help

Frontend development mode

⚠️ For frontend work, it is often better to run the frontend in development mode locally. To do so, install the frontend dependencies with the following command:

$ make frontend-development-install

And run the frontend locally in development mode with the following command:

$ make run-frontend-development

Backend only

To start all the services, except the frontend container, you can use the following command:

$ make run-backend

Django admin

You can access the Django admin site at http://localhost:8071/admin.

You first need to create a superuser account:

$ make superuser

You can then login with sub [email protected] and password admin.

Feedback

We'd love to hear your thoughts and hear about your experiments, so come and say hi on Matrix.

Contributing 🙌

This project is community-driven and PRs are welcome. Do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any question related to our implementation or design decisions. We <3 contributions of any kind, big and small :

• Contribution guide
• Translations
• Chat with us!
• Open a PR (see our instructions on developing La Suite Drive locally)
• Submit a feature request or bug report

Gov ❤️ open source

All features we develop will always remain open-source. Come help us make LaSuite Drive even better. We're growing fast and would love some help. We are always looking for new partners, feel free to contact us if you are interested in using or contributing to LaSuite Drive. 

Roadmap

Curious where LaSuite Drive is headed? Explore upcoming features, priorities and long-term direction on our public roadmap.

License

This work is released under the MIT License (see LICENSE).

While LaSuite Drive is a public driven initiative our licence choice is an invitation for private sector actors to use, sell and contribute to the project.

Credits

LaSuite Drive is built on top of Django Rest Framework, Next.js. We thank the contributors of all these projects for their awesome work!