happyDomain
===========

Finally a simple, modern and open source interface for domain name.

It consists of a HTTP REST API written in Golang (primarily based on https://stackexchange.github.io/dnscontrol/ and https://github.com/miekg/dns) with a nice web interface written with [Svelte](https://svelte.dev/).
It runs as a single stateless Linux binary, backed by a database (currently: LevelDB, more to come soon).

**Features:**

* An ultra fast web interface without compromise
* Multiple domains management
* Support for 36+ DNS providers (including dynamic DNS, RFC 2136) thanks to [DNSControl](https://stackexchange.github.io/dnscontrol/)
* Support for the most recents resource records thanks to [CoreDNS's library](https://github.com/miekg/dns)
* Zone editor with a diff view to review the changes before propagation
* Keep an history of published changes
* Contextual help
* Multiple user with authentication or one user without authtication
* Compatible with external authentication (through JWT tokens: Auth0, ...)

Using Docker
------------

We are a Docker sponsored OSS project! Thus you can easily try and/or deploy our app using Docker/podman/kubernetes/...:

```
docker run -e HAPPYDOMAIN_NO_AUTH=1 -p 8081:8081 happydomain/happydomain
```

This command will launch happyDomain in a few seconds, for evaluation purposes (no authentication, volatile storage, ...). With your browser, just go to <http://localhost:8081> and enjoy!

In order to deploy happyDomain, check the [Docker image documentation](https://hub.docker.com/r/happydomain/happydomain).

Building
--------

### Dependencies

In order to build the happyDomain project, you'll need the following dependencies:

* `go` at least version 1.18;
* `nodejs` tested with version 18 and 19.


### Instructions

1. First, you'll need to prepare the frontend, by installing the node modules dependencies:

```
pushd ui; npm install; popd
```

2. Then, generate assets files used by Go code:

```
go generate ./...
```

3. Finaly, build the Go code:

```
go build -tags swagger,ui
```

This last command will create a binary `happyDomain` you can use standalone.


Install at home
---------------

The binary comes with sane default options to start with.
You can simply launch the following command in your terminal:

```
./happyDomain
```

After some initialization, it should show you:

    Admin listening on ./happydomain.sock
    Ready, listening on :8081

Go to http://localhost:8081/ to start using happyDomain.


### Database configuration

By default, the LevelDB storage engine is used. You can change the storage engine using the option `-storage-engine other-engine`.

The help command `./happyDomain -help` shows you the available engines:

```
    -storage-engine value
    	Select the storage engine between [leveldb mysql] (default leveldb)
```

#### LevelDB

LevelDB is a small embedded key-value store (as SQLite it doesn't require an additional daemon to work).

```
    -leveldb-path string
    	Path to the LevelDB Database (default "happydomain.db")
```

By default, a new directory is created near the binary, called `happydomain.db`. This directory contains the database used by the program.
You can change it to a more meaningful/persistant path.


### Persistent configuration

The binary will automatically look for some existing configuration files:

* `./happydomain.conf` in the current directory;
* `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/happydomain/happydomain.conf`;
* `/etc/happydomain.conf`.

Only the first file found will be used.

It is also possible to specify a custom path by adding it as argument to the command line:

```sh
./happyDomain /etc/happydomain/config
```

#### Config file format

Comments line has to begin with #, it is not possible to have comments at the end of a line, by appending # followed by a comment.

Place on each line the name of the config option and the expected value, separated by `=`. For example:

```
storage-engine=leveldb
leveldb-path=/var/lib/happydomain/db/
```

#### Environment variables

It'll also look for special environment variables, beginning with `HAPPYDOMAIN_`.

You can achieve the same as the previous example, with the following environment variables:

```
HAPPYDOMAIN_STORAGE_ENGINE=leveldb
HAPPYDOMAIN_LEVELDB_PATH=/var/lib/happydomain/db/
```

You just have to replace dash by underscore.


Development environment
-----------------------

If you want to contribute to the frontend, instead of regenerating the frontend assets each time you made a modification (with `go generate`), you can use the development tools:

In one terminal, run `happydomain` with the following arguments:

```
./happyDomain -dev http://127.0.0.1:8080
```

In another terminal, run the node part:

```
cd ui; npm run dev
```

With this setup, static assets integrated inside the go binary will not be used, instead it'll forward all requests for static assets to the node server, that do dynamic reload, etc.
