EteSync - Secure Data Sync

The EteSync Web App - Use EteSync from the browser!

Usage

Note: This is still in an early stage, but it should be safe to use. It uses the battle tested sjcl javascript crypto library for encryption, so that should be fine too.

A live instance is available on: https://client.etesync.com

Please be advised that while it's probably safe enough to use the hosted client in many cases, it's generally not preferable. It's recommended that you use signed releases which's signature you manually verify and are run locally!

More info is available on the FAQ.

Running your own

You can either self-host your own client to be served from your own server, or better yet, just run an instance locally.

You can get the latest version of the web client from https://client.etesync.com/etesync-web.tgz. This file is automatically generated on each deploy and is exactly the same as the delpoyed version. After fetching thise file you need to extract it by e.g. running tar -xzf etesync-web.tgz, and then you can serve the files using your favourite web server. Please keep in mind that opening the HTML files directly in the browser is not supported.

If you are just serving the app locally, you could, for example, use the python built-in web server by running python3 -m http.server from inside the extracted etesync-web directory. If you plan on serving it from a server, please use a proper web server such as nginx.

Building it yourself

Before you can build the web app from source, you need to make sure you have yarn install.

Then clone this repository yarn, run yarn and wait until all of the deps are installed.

Then it's recommended you run yarn build to build a production ready client you should serve (even if run locally!) and then just serve the build directory from a web server.

The URL of the EteSync API the web app connects to defaults to etesync.com, but can be changed on the login page. You can change this default by setting the environment variable REACT_APP_DEFAULT_API_PATH during the build. This can be useful for self-hosting. You can set the default URL to the address of your self-hosted EteSync server so you don't have to change the address for every login.

Serving from a subdirectory

In order to run your own version and serve it from a subdirectory rather than the top level of the domain, add "homepage": "/subdir-name" to the package.json file.