appstore VS paseto

I have good news for you: https://apps.nextcloud.com

Nextcloud is nothing more than a collection of small apps. You can disable even core things like sharing.

Anyway, I'm sure you would have found this by using your favourite search engine. Nextcloud is pretty popular. And you'll find much more integrations on the Nextcloud app page or on /r/nextcloud.

Nextcloud allows us to keep our personal files in sync across devices. I use it to sync files between my desktop, laptop, and phone. This means I can work on the same file from anywhere. I leverage a separate file server to store backups, installation kits, legacy documents, iso files, roms, and other things that I want to keep, but do not need direct and immediate access to on the regular. Nextcloud is purpose built. You can access your files through an installed client or through its web interface. Nextcloud has a lot of add-on apps as well which can really extend its functionality. Nextcloud also has an "instant upload" feature which uploads your photos from your phone to your Nextcloud instance. This can be very helpful as it is easier for me to view/edit photos from my desktop. You can also share files between users on the same Nextcloud instance. it's very similar to Dropbox or Google Drive, except you can host it yourself and keep your data, your data.

It is overkill for this only, but if you want to host many more small services like this easily, you may be interested in Nextcloud. Once you have it, you can add any app available on https://apps.nextcloud.com/ with one button, in particular the bookmark app. Bookmarks can then be synced to your browser with the open-source addon https://floccus.org/

Can you reach https://apps.nextcloud.com/ from your network?

By default it does the usual expected things like file and photo syncing, notes, calendar, contacts, to-do lists, etc. Because it's open source, it can be extended by other people who make "apps" for it that you can install, of which you can see an exhaustive list here. Notable entries include office software, password managers, RSS readers, chat services, and plenty more.

Like KDE, Gnome, and Nextcloud?

Nextcloud has support for far more features than just file serving if you look at all these apps.

I agree with you. It seems like the self-hosting community is getting a decent amount of attention right now, and the ability to deploy browser-based applications is the way to go for many FOSS projects.

I think NextCloud [0] has a few apps that do G Suite-type stuff, but I don't have experience using them. Etherpad [1] also seems really good, I've used it in a few Zoom calls and the experience was smooth.

[0] https://apps.nextcloud.com/

Might I suggest Paseto (https://paseto.io/) - it solves a lot of the headaches of JWT. Signing and encryption are two different things that require two different sets of keys, so you can't mess it up.

(Full disclosure, I've written one implementation: https://github.com/auth70/paseto-ts)

Though we'll be building a session-based authentication system, it's noteworthy that with the introduction of some concepts which will be discussed in due time, you can turn it into JWT- or, more securely and appropriately, PASETO-based authentication system.

Time we ditch it and use paseto

The PASETO web site goes over it. Mostly it's designed to make you do things the right way and avoid all the security holes you can fall into with JWT.

If this is too much to handle, you shouldn't have to! There's already solutions that handle it for you