Collabora Online

LibreOffice in the Cloud on your own Terms

Key features

• View and edit text documents, spreadsheets, presentations & more
• Collaborative editing features
• Works in any modern browser – no plugin needed
• Open Source – primarily under the MPLv2 license. Some parts are under other open source licences, see e.g. browser/LICENSE.

Website

For many more details, build instructions, downloads and more please visit https://collaboraonline.github.io/

Developer assistance

Please ask your questions on any of the bridged IRC/Matrix/Telegram rooms

• IRC: #cool-dev on irc.libera.chat
• Matrix: #cool-dev:libera.chat
• Telegram: CollaboraOnline

Join the conversation on our Discourse server at https://forum.collaboraonline.com/

Watch the tinderbox status (if it's green) at https://cpci.cbg.collabora.co.uk:8080/view/Tinderbox/job/Tinderbox%20for%20online%20master/

Development bits

This project has several components:

• wsd/
  • The Web Services Daemon - which accepts external connections
• kit/
  • The client which lives in its own chroot and renders documents
• common/
  • Shared code between these processes
• browser/
  • The client side JavaScript component
• test/
  • C++ based unit tests
• cypress_test/
  • JavaScript based integration tests

Further recommended reading with build details

Please consult the README files in the component's directory for more details:

• wsd/README
• browser/README

iOS and Android apps

See the corresponding READMEs:

• ios/README
• android/README

GitPod

Head over to https://collaboraonline.github.io/post/build-code/ select gitpod from the dropdown and follow the steps.

Interesting things to keep in mind:

• Make sure your browser is not blocking windows/tabs from opening from the gitpod workspace URL (maybe add *.gitpod.io to your browser's whitelist)
  • The GitPod tasks will run automatically and further instructions will be printed out right in the terminal
  • VNC tab will open automatically if not just click in the left icon Remote explorer and click 6080. You will see a tab completly black, that's normal.
  • As mentioned in those instructions if you are not using the VS Code desktop and if you are only relying on your browser please:
    • Do not try to click the URL from the make run out put instead copy that URL and execute firefox [paste URL here]
    • Head over to the tab where the VNC is opened (black page), you will see Firefox opening there, maximize and have fun.
    • You can also run cypress tests via GitPod but you will need to use Firefox, for that just prepend CYPRESS_BROWSER="firefox" to the desired command. Example: CYPRESS_BROWSER="firefox" make check for every test or CYPRESS_BROWSER="firefox" make check-desktop spec=impress/scrolling_spec.js for one specific test on desktop

Enjoy!