AppForge Hub on Unraid

Self-hosted AI app builder: describe an app in chat, get a real running web app with its own database and auth already wired up. AI is optional and pluggable — a cloud API key or a local Ollama/llama.cpp instance.

Setup

1. Apps tab → search "AppForge Hub" → Install (or add the template manually — see the parent repo's README).
2. Set the Appdata path (default /mnt/user/appdata/appforge-hub) — this holds the admin account, settings, and every generated app's files and database. Back this up like you would any other app's config.
3. Start the container and open the WebUI. The first visit creates the single admin account for this instance — there is no other signup.
4. (Optional) In Settings, choose an AI provider:
   • Anthropic / OpenAI / OpenAI-compatible — paste an API key. Use "OpenAI-compatible" to point at OpenRouter, Groq, or any other endpoint that speaks the OpenAI API shape.
   • Ollama / llama.cpp — point the base URL at an existing instance on your LAN (e.g. http://192.168.1.50:11434), or run one alongside this container (see below). Nothing leaves your network.

Until a provider is configured, the dashboard and project pages work, but chat-based generation is disabled.

Running a local model alongside it

Easiest path: install the Ollama template from Community Applications separately, pull a model (docker exec -it ollama ollama pull llama3.1), then in AppForge Hub's Settings set provider = Ollama and base URL to http://<unraid-ip>:11434.

Notes

• Generated apps run as child Node processes inside this container on internal ports 4100–4999 and are reverse-proxied through the same WebUI port — nothing else needs to be exposed or port-forwarded.
• Set AI_PROVIDER / AI_API_KEY / AI_BASE_URL / AI_MODEL as container variables to pre-configure a provider at first boot; the Settings page can still override them afterward (values saved there take precedence).
• All generated-app data lives under /config/projects/<id>/ inside the Appdata path, including each app's own data.sqlite — deleting an app from the UI deletes its folder.