Focalboard¶

Focalboard is an open-source, multilingual, self-hosted project management tool.

Description¶

It is an alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana, providing a Kanban-style board for task management.

To run Focalboard locally using the official Docker image:

docker run -it -p 80:8000 mattermost/focalboard

Access the interface at http://localhost.

Focalboard is primarily a web-based application. Development and build tasks are managed via make:

# Build the server
make

# Run the server binary
./bin/focalboard-server

# Build the web app
make webapp

The Boards API can be accessed via curl. Use your session token for authentication:

# Get all boards
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <your_session_token>" \
     "http://localhost:8000/api/v1/boards"