Seatsurfing Backend

Seatsurfing is a software which enables your organisation's employees to book seats, desks and rooms.

This repository contains the Backend, which consists of:

• The Server (REST API Backend) written in Go
• User Self-Service Booking Web Interface ("Booking UI"), built as a Progressive Web Application (PWA) which can be installed on mobile devices
• Admin Web Interface ("Admin UI")
• Common TypeScript files for the two TypeScript/React web frontends

Visit project's website for more information.

Screenshots

Web Admin UI

Web Booking UI

Quick reference

• Maintained by: Seatsurfing.app
• Where to get help: Documentation
• Docker architectures: amd64, arm64, arm v7
• License: GPL 3.0

How to use the Docker image

Breaking change in version 1.13

Up to version 1.12, the backend Docker image included all the static web resources for the Booking and Admin interfaces. With version 1.13, we separated the web interfaces from the backend server. You therefore need to start the booking-ui and admin-ui Docker images separately. The backend has an integrated HTTP proxy which forwards incoming requests for /ui/ and /admin/ to the corresponding backends. If you prefer to handle request routing with a preceding reverse proxy (such as Traefik or nginx), you can disable proxy functionality by setting the environment variable DISABLE_UI_PROXY=1.

Start using Docker Compose

version: '3.7'

services:
  server:
    image: ghcr.io/seatsurfing/backend
    restart: always
    networks:
      sql:
      http:
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    environment:
      POSTGRES_URL: 'postgres://seatsurfing:DB_PASSWORD@db/seatsurfing?sslmode=disable'
      JWT_SIGNING_KEY: 'some_random_string'
      BOOKING_UI_BACKEND: 'booking-ui:3001'
      ADMIN_UI_BACKEND: 'admin-ui:3000'
      PUBLIC_URL: 'https://seatsurfing.your-domain.com'
      FRONTEND_URL: 'https://seatsurfing.your-domain.com'
  booking-ui:
    image: ghcr.io/seatsurfing/booking-ui
    restart: always
    networks:
      http:
    environment:
      FRONTEND_URL: 'https://seatsurfing.your-domain.com'
  admin-ui:
    image: ghcr.io/seatsurfing/admin-ui
    restart: always
    networks:
      http:
    environment:
      FRONTEND_URL: 'https://seatsurfing.your-domain.com'
  db:
    image: postgres:16
    restart: always
    networks:
      sql:
    volumes:
      - db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    environment:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: DB_PASSWORD
      POSTGRES_USER: seatsurfing
      POSTGRES_DB: seatsurfing

volumes:
  db:

networks:
  sql:
  http:

This starts...

• a PostgreSQL database with data stored on Docker volume "db"
• a Seatsurfing Backend instance with port 8080 exposed.
• a Seatsurfing Booking UI instance which is accessible through the Backend instance at: :8080/ui/
• a Seatsurfing Admin UI instance which is accessible through the Backend instance at: :8080/admin/

Running on Kubernetes

Please refer to our Kubernetes documentation.

Environment variables

Please check out the documentation for the latest information on available environment variables and further guidance.

Backend

Environment Variable	Type	Default	Description
DEV	bool	0	Development Mode, set to 1 to enable
PUBLIC_LISTEN_ADDR	string	0.0.0.0:8080	TCP/IP listen address and port
PUBLIC_URL	string	http://localhost:8080	Public URL
FRONTEND_URL	string	http://localhost:8080	Frontend URL (usually matches the Public URL)
ADMIN_UI_BACKEND	string	localhost:3000	Host serving the Admin UI frontend
BOOKING_UI_BACKEND	string	localhost:3001	Host serving the Booking UI frontend
DISABLE_UI_PROXY	bool	0	Disable proxy for admin and booking UI, set to 1 to disable the proxy
POSTGRES_URL	string	postgres://postgres:root @ localhost/seatsurfing?sslmode=disable	PostgreSQL Connection
JWT_SIGNING_KEY	string	random string	JWT Signing Key
SMTP_HOST	string	127.0.0.1	SMTP server address
SMTP_PORT	int	25	SMTP server port
SMTP_START_TLS	bool	0	Use SMTP STARTTLS extension, set to 1 to enable
SMTP_INSECURE_SKIP_VERIFY	bool	0	Disable SMTP TLS certificate validation
SMTP_AUTH	bool	0	SMTP authentication, set to 1 to enable
SMTP_AUTH_USER	string		SMTP auth username
SMTP_AUTH_PASS	string		SMTP auth password
SMTP_SENDER_ADDRESS	string	[email protected]	SMTP sender address
MOCK_SENDMAIL	bool	0	SMTP mocking, set to 1 to enable
PRINT_CONFIG	bool	0	Print configuration on startup, set to 1 to enable
INIT_ORG_NAME	string	Sample Company	Your organization's name
INIT_ORG_DOMAIN	string	seatsurfing.local	Your organization's domain
INIT_ORG_USER	string	admin	Your organization's admin username
INIT_ORG_PASS	string	12345678	Your organization's admin password
INIT_ORG_COUNTRY	string	DE	Your organization's ISO country code
INIT_ORG_LANGUAGE	string	de	Your organization's ISO language code
ORG_SIGNUP_ENABLED	bool	0	Allow signup of new organizations, set to 1 to enable
ORG_SIGNUP_DOMAIN	string	.on.seatsurfing.local	Signup domain suffix
ORG_SIGNUP_ADMIN	string	admin	Admin username for new signups
ORG_SIGNUP_MAX_USERS	int	50	Maximum number of users for new organisations
ORG_SIGNUP_DELETE	bool	0	Allow admins to delete their own organisation

Frontend (Admin UI, Booking UI)

Environment Variable	Type	Default	Description
FRONTEND_URL	string	req.url	Frontend URL
PORT	int	3000 (Admin UI), 3001 (Booking UI)	The server's HTTP port
LISTEN_ADDR	string		TCP/IP listen address (defaults to NextJS' hostname setting)

Hint: When running in an IPV6-only Docker/Podman environment with multiple network interfaces bound to the Frontend containers, setting the LISTEN_ADDR environment variable can be necessary as NextJS binds to only one network interface by default. Set it to :: to bind to any address.