Synapse admin ui

This project is built using react-admin.

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -

## Run `sudo apt-get install -y nodejs` to install Node.js 14.x and npm
## You may also need development tools to build native addons:
     sudo apt-get install gcc g++ make
## To install the Yarn package manager, run:
     curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/yarnkey.gpg >/dev/null
     echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/yarnkey.gpg] https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
     sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn

Usage

Supported Synapse

It needs at least Synapse v1.42.0 for all functions to work as expected!

You get your server version with the request /_synapse/admin/v1/server_version. See also Synapse version API.

After entering the URL on the login page of synapse-admin the server version appears below the input field.

Prerequisites

You need access to the following endpoints:

• /_matrix
• /_synapse/admin

See also Synapse administration endpoints

Use without install

You can use the current version of Synapse Admin without own installation direct via GitHub Pages.

Note: If you want to use the deployment, you have to make sure that the admin endpoints (/_synapse/admin) are accessible for your browser. Remember: You have no need to expose these endpoints to the internet but to your network. If you want your own deployment, follow the Step-By-Step Install Guide below.

Step-By-Step install

You have three options:

1. Download the tarball and serve with any webserver
2. Download the source code from github and run using nodejs
3. Run the Docker container

Steps for 1)

• make sure you have a webserver installed that can serve static files (any webserver like nginx or apache will do)
• configure a vhost for synapse admin on your webserver
• download the .tar.gz from the latest release: https://github.com/Awesome-Technologies/synapse-admin/releases/latest
• unpack the .tar.gz
• move or symlink the synapse-admin-x.x.x into your vhosts root dir
• open the url of the vhost in your browser

Steps for 2)

• make sure you have installed the following: git, yarn, nodejs
• download the source code: git clone https://github.com/Awesome-Technologies/synapse-admin.git
• change into downloaded directory: cd synapse-admin
• download dependencies: yarn install
• start web server: yarn start

You can fix the homeserver, so that the user can no longer define it himself. Either you define it at startup (e.g. REACT_APP_SERVER=https://yourmatrixserver.example.com yarn start) or by editing it in the .env file. See also the documentation.

Steps for 3)

• run the Docker container from the public docker registry: docker run -p 8080:80 awesometechnologies/synapse-admin or use the docker-compose.yml: docker-compose up -d

  note: if you're building on an architecture other than amd64 (for example a raspberry pi), make sure to define a maximum ram for node. otherwise the build will fail.

  version: "3"
  
  services:
    synapse-admin:
      container_name: synapse-admin
      hostname: synapse-admin
      build:
        context: https://github.com/Awesome-Technologies/synapse-admin.git
        # args:
        #   - NODE_OPTIONS="--max_old_space_size=1024"
        #   # see #266
        #   - PUBLIC_URL="/synapse-admin"
        #   - REACT_APP_SERVER="https://matrix.example.com"
      ports:
        - "8080:80"
      restart: unless-stopped
  

• browse to http://localhost:8080

Screenshots

Development

• Use yarn test to run all style, lint and unit tests
• Use yarn fix to fix the coding style