Rapi::Fs

Instant file browser using

Ajax navigation trees

Files and Directories rendered in responsive/interactive ExtJS TreePanel

RESTful URLs, tabbed content panels

View details of Files and Directories in individual tabs, including inline content preview

Features

Written in Perl and RapidApp
Pure Ajax, single-page app
Tabbed interface with RESTful navigation
Recursive search
Right-click/context menu
Supports regular files, directories, symlinks
Handles hidden files and unreadable files
Understands MIME types and Unicode
Intelligent, inline file viewer
Syntax highlighting code files

Flexible and easy to use:

As a dedicated app
Plack/PSGI component
RapidApp Module
Command-line utility with rapi-fs.pl

Extensible/customizable classes:

Filesystem Driver class (backend)
FileTree class (frontend)

Rapi::Fs is a Plack-compatible file browser application written using RapidApp. It generates a nice-looking dynamic web interface to browse and view arbitrary files and directories for the configured "mounts" using a standard, split-panel tree layout.

This module was written over the course of several days in order to showcase some of the functionality of the RapidApp toolkit/framework, particularly regarding Tree modules, and provide a reference implementation.

For complete API documentation, see the module on CPAN:
metacpan.org/pod/Rapi::Fs

Live Demo

Example, Running Application (PSGI):

This example app is configured with three directory mounts, including the application's own home directory.

Launch Demo!

Code is the actual running psgi file (being served by the application itself): rapi-fs-demo.psgi

As embedded componenets

With tabbed nagivation

Plain tree

» double-click to download

See Direct Rendering URLs in the RapidApp Manual for more info on embedding Modules in iframes, as show above.

Download & Installation

Source code & Docs

Command-line install


  # Install from CPAN:
  cpanm Rapi::Fs
  
  # Launch app with built-in web server:
  rapi-fs.pl /path/to/files