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What is ReboFiles
ReboFiles is a file manager for the browser that lives inside your application: folders, uploads, previews, versions, a trash and sharing, with the bytes in your own bucket and the entries in your own database. It is the drive of the Rebo suite, beside Rebodocs, and comes as packages you take one at a time.
tip: the drive below is running — click around
The drive, running
The demo of the landing: the drive kept in this page, with Acme’s files made in it. Nothing leaves the browser.
Try it
What you get
- Uploads you can watch. Straight to the bucket in parts, three at a time, each with how long it has left; whole folders as they were; one cut goes on from where it was.
- The same file caught. Its bytes, or its name, found in the drive before it goes: replaced as a new version, both kept, or skipped.
- Folders and search. Nested folders, nine colours, the list in any order, search by name and by what is written inside files.
- Previews and a viewer. Word documents page by page with Rebodocs, PDFs, pictures in four sizes and blurred while they come, video, audio and text.
- Versions, the trash and space. Every save keeps the file before it; the trash empties itself after the days you say; a quota for each person.
- Sharing. Viewer, commenter and editor, down the tree; links that expire, with a password or for one download; what is new in Shared with me.
- Activity. Who did what to each file and folder, kept by your database.
- .zip downloads of what is picked, a folder or a link’s folder, made in the page.
- AI assistants. Tools for Claude over MCP, with the user’s own rights; Word documents edited through Rebodocs, each change a version.
- As it happens. What someone else changes shows at once; comments with replies and @ names; folders of thousands; the drive read a piece at a time.
- Kept safe. Files checked by their bytes and by ClamAV, limits on who asks too often, a minimum of days, legal holds, everything of a person exported.
- Keyboard and screen readers, light and dark, English, Spanish and Mandarin, a screen of settings, and a desktop application that keeps a folder in sync.
The packages
| Package | Take it when |
|---|---|
| @rebofiles/react | You have a React or Next.js application and want the drive in a screen of it, whole or from hooks. |
| @rebofiles/drive | Your page has no framework, or one that is not React: the same drive, mounted on an element. |
| @rebofiles/server | Your backend keeps the entries and signs the addresses: one route, Request in and Response out. |
| @rebofiles/core | You change a drive in code, in a job or a store of your own: the model as pure functions. |
| @rebofiles/mcp | An AI assistant should find, read and file documents with the rights of its person. |
Packages says what each holds and how they depend on each other.
How it is built
- The bytes never pass through your server. The browser sends them to the bucket at addresses the server signs for their exact length, and reads them back the same way.
- The entries live in a store beside them. A bucket has no folders, owners or trash; the key of a file is its id, never its path, so moving and renaming never touch the bytes.
- Who may do what is your application’s.
identifyandauthorizeare asked on every route; ReboFiles has no users of its own. - No runtime dependencies. S3 is signed with
node:crypto, SQLite isnode:sqlite, the .zip is written in the page.
What it is not
- Not a hosted service. There is nothing to sign up for: it is code you run, on storage you own.
- Not finished. It is on npm at 0.12.0, and it does not do everything: Status and roadmap lists what is checked and what is missing.