homer

A dead simple static homepage to expose your server services, with an easy yaml configuration and connectivity check.
22 May 202048317

Homer

A dead simple static HOMepage for your servER to keep your services on hand, from a simple yaml configuration file.

Check out the live demo here.

It supports keyboard shortcuts:

  • / Start searching.
  • Escape Stop searching.
  • Enter Open the first matching result (respects the bookmark's _target property).
  • Alt/Option + Enter Open the first matching result in a new tab.

If you need authentication support, you're on your own (it can be secured using a web server auth module or exposing it only through a VPN network / SSH tunnel, ...)

screenshot

Roadmap

  • Colors / theme customization
  • Enable PWA support (making possible to "install" - add to homescreen - it)
  • Improve maintainability (external library import & service workers cached file list.)

Installation

Using docker

sudo docker run -p 8080:8080 -v /your/local/config.yml:/www/config.yml -v /your/local/assets/:/www/assets b4bz/homer:latest

Manually

How to build / install it? There is no build system (😱), use it like that! It's meant to be stupid simple & zero maintenance required. Just copy the static files somewhere, and visit the index.html.

Configuration

Title, icons, links, colors, and services can be configured in the config.yml file, using yaml format.

---
# Homepage configuration
# See https://fontawesome.com/icons for icons options

title: "Simple homepage"
subtitle: "Homer"
logo: "assets/homer.png"
# Alternatively a fa icon can be provided:
# icon: "fas fa-skull-crossbones"  
footer: '<p>Created with <span class="has-text-danger">❤️</span> with <a href="https://bulma.io/">bulma</a>, <a href="https://vuejs.org/">vuejs</a> & <a href="https://fontawesome.com/">font awesome</a> // Fork me on <a href="https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer"><i class="fab fa-github-alt"></i></a></p>'  # set false if you want to hide it.header:

# Optional message
message:
  # url: "https://<my-api-endpoint>" # Can fetch information from an endpoint to override value below.
  style: "is-warning"
  title: "Optional message!"
  content: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Pellentesque risus mi, tempus quis placerat ut, porta nec nulla. Vestibulum rhoncus ac ex sit amet fringilla. Nullam gravida purus diam, et dictum felis venenatis efficitur. Aenean ac eleifend lacus, in mollis lectus. Donec sodales, arcu et sollicitudin porttitor, tortor urna tempor ligula."

# Optional navbar
# links: [] # Allows for navbar (dark mode, layout, and search) without any links
links:
  - name: "ansible"
    icon: "fab fa-github"
    url: "https://github.com/xxxxx/ansible/"
    target: '_blank' # optional html a tag target attribute
  - name: "Wiki"
    icon: "fas fa-book"
    url: "https://wiki.xxxxxx.com/"

# Services
# First level array represent a group.
# Leave only a "items" key if not using group (group name, icon & tagstyle are optional, section separation will not be displayed).
services:
  - name: "DevOps"
    icon: "fa fa-code-fork"
    items:
      - name: "Jenkins"
        logo: "/assets/tools/jenkins.png"
        # Alternatively a fa icon can be provided:
        # icon: "fab fa-jenkins"
        subtitle: "Continuous integration server"
        tag: "CI"
        url: "#"
        target: '_blank' # optional html a tag target attribute
      - name: "RabbitMQ Management"
        logo: "/assets/tools/rabbitmq.png"
        subtitle: "Manage & monitor RabbitMQ server"
        tag: "haproxy"
        # Optional tagstyle
        tagstyle: "is-success"
        url: "#"
  - name: "Monitoring"
    icon: "fas fa-heartbeat"
    items:
      - name: "M/Monit"
        logo: "/assets/tools/monit.png"
        subtitle: "Monitor & manage all monit enabled hosts"
        tag: "monit"
        url: "#"
      - name: "Grafana"
        logo: "/assets/tools/grafana.png"
        subtitle: "Metric analytics & dashboards"
        url: "#"
      - name: "Kibana"
        logo: "/assets/tools/elastic.png"
        subtitle: "Explore & visualize logs"
        tag: "elk"
        url: "#"
      - name: "Website monitoring"
        logo: "/assets/tools/pingdom.png"
        subtitle: "Pingdom public reports overview"
        tag: "CI"
        url: "#"

If you choose to fetch message information from an endpoint, the output format should be:

{
  "style": null,
  "title": "Lorem ipsum 42",
  "content": "LA LA LA Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, ....."
}

null value or missing keys will be ignored and value from the config.yml will be used if available. Empty values (either in config.yml or the endpoint data) will hide the element (ex: set "title": "" to hide the title bar).