Electro - A dynamic git repo static server

Personal Github pages lite. Share prototypes with teammates. Host static sites. Share documents.

Demo: https://electro.pnegahdar.com

Features:

Automatic HTTPs through LetsEncrypt
No restarts, add a new site and access it immediately.
Serve from any git repo/branch/subdirectory
Git repositories auto update to serve newest changes on a branch
Simple user interface to add and remove sites.
Serve each site on a multiple hostnames
Add http basic auth to any of the sites to protect them from public access
Protect public sites with deletion passwords.
Single binary, zero external dependencies (including git)
Run as pid 1 or docker entrypoint, includes reaper.

Screenshot

Getting started

Install

OSX:

curl -SsL https://github.com/pnegahdar/electro/releases/download/0.1.0/darwin_amd64 > /usr/local/bin/electro && \
        chmod +x /usr/local/bin/electro

Linux:

curl -SsL https://github.com/pnegahdar/electro/releases/download/0.1.0/linux_amd64 > /usr/local/bin/electro && \
        chmod +x /usr/local/bin/electro

Dockerfile

ENV ELECTRO_VERSION 0.1.0
ADD https://github.com/pnegahdar/electro/releases/download/${ELECTRO_VERSION}/linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/electro
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/electro

Prebuilt:

export WILDCARD_DOMAIN="site.domain.com"
docker run -d --restart=always \
        -p 80:80 -p 443:443 \
        -v /var/data/electro:/var/data/electro \
        pnegahdar/electro \
        electro start --listen-http :80 --listen-https :443 --data-dir /var/data/electro --wildcard ${WILDCARD_DOMAIN}

Run

Create a wildcard domain and point it to the server.

electro start --wildcard site.domain.com --listen-http :80 --listen-https :443

electro start --help
Start the server.

Usage:
  electro start [flags]

Flags:
  -w, --wildcard string         The wildcard domain to serve e.g electro.site.com
  -l, --listen-http string      The address to listen for http connections. e.g. 0.0.0.0:80, :5000, etc. (default ":4200")
  -s, --listen-https string     The address to listen for https servers. https server not started when ommited.
  -p, --admin-password string   The password for the admin dashboard and api. Must provide username as well.
  -u, --admin-username string   The username for the admin dashboard and api. Must provide password as well.
  -d, --data-dir string         The directory to store the state and certificates. (default "~/.electro")

Contributing

Clone the repo. This project uses glide for dependency management. These commands assume glide is installed, go paths are set, go bin is in your path and you have yarn and node.

# install deps
glide install

# build
make build

# distrubtable build: osx and linux with static assets embedded in binary.
make distribute

# Run the go application
make build && electro-dev start --wildcard test.com

# Run the static server
cd fe/ && yarn install && yarn start

# fmt changes
make fmt