nextcloud / server

# Nextcloud Server ☁
**A safe home for all your data.**
## Why is this so awesome? 🤩
* 📁 **Access your Data** You can store your files, contacts, calendars, and more on a server of your choosing.
* 🔄 **Sync your Data** You keep your files, contacts, calendars, and more synchronized amongst your devices.
* 🙌 **Share your Data** …by giving others access to the stuff you want them to see or to collaborate with.
* 🚀 **Expandable with hundreds of Apps** ...like Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Video Chat and all those you can discover in our App Store
* 🔒 **Security** with our encryption mechanisms, HackerOne bounty program and two-factor authentication.
Do you want to learn more about how you can use Nextcloud to access, share, and protect your files, calendars, contacts, communication & more at home and in your organization? **Learn about all our Features**.
## Get your Nextcloud 🚚
- ☑️ **Simply sign up** at one of our providers either through our website or through the apps directly.
- 🖥 **Install** a server by yourself on your hardware or by using one of our ready-to-use **appliances**
- 📦 Buy one of the awesome **devices** coming with a preinstalled Nextcloud
- 🏢 Find a service **provider** who hosts Nextcloud for you or your company
Enterprise? Public Sector or Education user? You may want to have a look into **Nextcloud Enterprise** provided by Nextcloud GmbH.
## Get in touch 💬
* 📋 Forum
* 🦋 Bluesky
* 👥 Facebook
* 🐘 Mastodon
You can also get support for Nextcloud!
## Join the team 👪
There are many ways to contribute, of which development is only one! Find out how to get involved, including as a translator, designer, tester, helping others, and much more! 😍
### Development setup 👩‍💻
1. 🚀 Set up your local development environment
2. 🐛 Pick a good first issue
3. 👩‍🔧 Create a branch and make your changes. Remember to sign off your commits using `git commit -sm "Your commit message"`
4. ⬆ Create a pull request and `@mention` the people from the issue to review
5. 👍 Fix things that come up during a review
6. 🎉 Wait for it to get merged!
Third-party components are handled as git submodules which have to be initialized first. So aside from the regular git checkout invoking `git submodule update --init` or a similar command is needed, for details see Git documentation.
Several apps that are included by default in regular releases such as First run wizard or Activity are missing in `master` and have to be installed manually by cloning them into the `apps` subfolder.
Otherwise, git checkouts can be handled the same as release archives, by using the `stable*` branches. Note they should never be used on production systems.
#### Testing your code
We use multiple test frameworks for specific areas of the code:
- PHPUnit for PHP unit tests
- Behat for PHP integration tests
- Vitest for Javascript / Typescript unit tests
- Playwright for end-to-end tests
For our end-to-end tests using Playwright you can refer to our documentation
on how to debug errors and to contribu