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.

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

npm install

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

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

npm run dev

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

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.

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.

npm run test

This approach will download the sources on your machine such that you are able to use your IDE or editor of choice. A Docker container will be used in order to provide a controlled build environment without messing with your host system.

Install Git and Docker.

Prepare and build container

git clone [email protected]:minio/minio.git
cd minio
docker build -t minio-dev -f Dockerfile.dev.browser .

Run container, build and run core

docker run -it --rm --name minio-dev -v "$PWD":/minio minio-dev

cd /minio/browser
npm install
npm run release
cd /minio
make
./minio server /data

Note Endpoint IP (the one which is not 127.0.0.1), AccessKey and SecretKey (both default to minioadmin) in order to enter them in the browser later.

Open another terminal. Connect to container

docker exec -it minio-dev bash

Apply patch to allow access from outside container

cd /minio
git apply --ignore-whitespace <<EOF
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',
EOF

Build and run frontend with auto-reload

cd /minio/browser
npm install
npm run dev

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