For compliance, security, or technical reasons, it may not be possible to use public or cloud node hosting. Appshare provides a “Local Node” for these situations, allowing the Appshare PWA to be hosted on a server within the local network.
The Local Node is a container that runs a web server and proxy. The PWA is served by the web server, and the Appshare Services are proxied through the local node. The user device only needs access to the local node and customer services. The local node only needs internet access to reach the Appshare Services (https://api.appshare.app). When the local node is installed, it also needs internet access to download the container image from a Docker registry. Appshare provides a Node Manager to help install and update the local node containers.
When do you need a “Local Node”