minio/browser/README.md

MinIO File Browser

MinIO Browser provides minimal set of UI to manage buckets and objects on minio server. MinIO Browser is written in javascript and released under Apache 2.0 License.

Installation

Install node

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash
exec -l $SHELL
nvm install stable

Install node dependencies

npm install

Install go-bindata and go-bindata-assetfs

If you do not have a working Golang environment, please follow Install Golang

go get github.com/go-bindata/go-bindata/go-bindata
go get github.com/elazarl/go-bindata-assetfs/go-bindata-assetfs

Generating Assets

Generate ui-assets.go

npm run release

This generates ui-assets.go in the current directory. Now do make in the parent directory to build the minio binary with the newly generated ui-assets.go

Run MinIO Browser with live reload

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:8080/minio/ in your browser to play with the application

Run MinIO Browser with live reload on custom port

Edit browser/webpack.config.js

diff --git a/browser/webpack.config.js b/browser/webpack.config.js
index 3ccdaba..9496c56 100644
--- a/browser/webpack.config.js
+++ b/browser/webpack.config.js
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ var exports = {
     historyApiFallback: {
       index: '/minio/'
     },
+    port: 8888,
     proxy: {
       '/minio/webrpc': {
        target: 'http://localhost:9000',
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ var exports = {
 if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'dev') {
   exports.entry = [
     'webpack/hot/dev-server',
-    'webpack-dev-server/client?http://localhost:8080',
+    'webpack-dev-server/client?http://localhost:8888',
     path.resolve(__dirname, 'app/index.js')
   ]
 }

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:8888/minio/ in your browser to play with the application

Run MinIO Browser with live reload on any IP

Edit browser/webpack.config.js

diff --git a/browser/webpack.config.js b/browser/webpack.config.js
index 8bdbba53..139f6049 100644
--- a/browser/webpack.config.js
+++ b/browser/webpack.config.js
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ var exports = {
     historyApiFallback: {
       index: '/minio/'
     },
+    host: '0.0.0.0',
     proxy: {
       '/minio/webrpc': {
        target: 'http://localhost:9000',

npm run dev

Open http://IP:8080/minio/ in your browser to play with the application