Surfer is a PWA (progressive web application) for Cloudron that allows you to access your Cloudron instances securely and easily from your desktop. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Surfer on Manjaro Linux.
Open up a terminal window on your Manjaro Linux machine.
Run the following commands to install Git on your machine:
sudo pacman -S git
Clone the Surfer repository by running the following command:
git clone https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/surfer.git
Navigate to the Surfer directory using the following command:
cd surfer
Install the dependencies by running the following command:
npm install
Build the application using the following command:
npm run build
Start Surfer by running the following command:
npm run start
Surfer should now be running on your machine, and you should be able to access it by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:4050.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Surfer on Manjaro Linux. With Surfer, you can securely and easily access your Cloudron instances from your desktop. We hope this tutorial was helpful to you. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them below.
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