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Alfresco Digital Workspace

Platform
Alfresco
Product
Alfresco Digital Workspace
Release
4.2
ft:lastPublication
2026-05-06T17:28:51.867000
ft:locale
en-US
ArchiveStatus
Archived

Deploy the Content App using the following steps:

  1. Open a command prompt and clone the following GitHub repository to a working directory:

    git clone https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-content-app.git
    
  2. Navigate to the alfresco-content-app directory and create a file named .env with the following content:

    APP_CONFIG_ECM_HOST="http://localhost:8080"
    APP_CONFIG_PLUGIN_AOS=false
    APP_CONFIG_PLUGIN_CONTENT_SERVICE=true
    

    Note

    Enter your Alfresco Content Services URL as the APP_CONFIG_ECM_HOST value.

  3. Run the following commands to start the application:

    npm install
    npm start
    

    The application is available at http://localhost:4200 and you must use the Alfresco Content Services credentials.

The Alfresco Content App should be running in development mode in your development environment.