Open Collaboration Tools is a collection of open source tools, libraries and extensions for live-sharing of IDE contents, designed to boost remote teamwork with open technologies. For more information about this project, please read the announcement.

This package is the server implementation for Open Collaboration Tools. All participants of a collaboration session must connect to the same server.

You can run this package directly or use the public container image oct-server. If you'd like to customize the server, use this package as a TypeScript library and build your own application.

A public instance of this server is available at https://api.open-collab.tools/, which is operated by TypeFox. TypeFox offers this service with the intent to demonstrate the capabilities of the project and to support open source communities with it. However, we recommend all companies who wish to adopt this technology to deploy their own instance of it, secured with their existing access restrictions.

Usage of the public instance is bound to its Terms of Use. Please read them carefully and use our Discussions for any questions.

Environment variables

Variable	Description
OCT_SERVER_OWNER	Name of the server owner. E.g. the name of the company that hosts the server
OCT_JWT_PRIVATE_KEY	The private key for encoding the JWT's used for authenticating users
OCT_LOGIN_PAGE_URL	Url of the login page. Defaults to /login.html?token={token}
OCT_LOGIN_SUCCESS_URL	Url of the login success page. Defaults a simple "Login Successful. You can close this page" text
OCT_BASE_URL	Base URL of the server is reachable under. Used for oauth redirects
OCT_ACTIVATE_SIMPLE_LOGIN	Activates the simple login handler to alow unverified authentication just with username and optionally email
OCT_OAUTH_{Provider Name}_CLIENTID	Sets the client id for the specified OAuth provider
OCT_OAUTH_{Provider Name}_CLIENTSECRET	Sets the client secret for the specified OAuth provider