A workstation without a Nextcloud is half a workstation. Nearly every other tutorial in the academy assumes you have one running on localhost:8080. The good news: a dedicated tutorial already covers this end to end. This module is a short bridge that explains why you do it now, which Conduction apps to install once it's up, and how this part connects to the rest of the series.
Nextcloud is standing in front of an open window. Most people, including many inside the ecosystem itself, have not yet noticed it is open. What started as a safe alternative for file storage has quietly grown into something fundamentally different. The technical reality is already that of a platform. The name is the only thing still trailing behind. And in technology, as history teaches us, naming is not cosmetic. Naming is load-bearing. Windows close.
Een Nextcloud-app in de App Store zetten is geen knop, maar een keten. Je hebt een certificaat nodig om je code te signen, dat certificaat krijg je via een pull request op een Nextcloud-repo, en pas met dat certificaat mag je je app registreren en releases uploaden. De officiële documentatie beschrijft elke stap, maar verspreid over vier pagina's. Deze tutorial loopt het in één keer door, van licentiekeuze tot een GitHub Action die elke release automatisch publiceert.
This is Part 1 of the app-building tutorial series, the hands-on chassis lap. If you haven't read Part 0: Three paths, one curriculum yet, that's the orientation that explains why we build on this stack rather than raw Nextcloud, and how the manifest and @conduction/nextcloud-vue work as two intertwined surfaces. Part 1 picks up after that decision is made.
You'll build PetStore, a Nextcloud app on top of the OpenAPI Pet Store domain (pets, orders, categories, tags) on the full Conduction Nextcloud stack. The end product: add pets to the store, place orders, see order ship-dates in your Nextcloud Calendar, and surface category-specific care guides from xWiki right next to each pet. Every piece reuses what @conduction/nextcloud-vue and OpenRegister already give you for free.
In Part 1 you scaffold the app, rename it, build it, and see the canonical app chassis on screen. No data, no integrations yet. We get the bones right first.
Every other tutorial in this academy needs a working Nextcloud. This is the fastest route: a few commands and you run the official Nextcloud locally on your laptop, identical to production. You do not need to be a programmer — if you can install an app and copy and paste text, you will get through this. After that you install the Conduction apps from the Nextcloud app store, the same path as production.