Web UI about river

[bgentry]

Hi everyone, we're excited to ship River UI today. Check out the blog post, the live demo, and the docs to get started with it.

Sorry it took so long, but I hope you find it useful. There is definitely more to come—hope to share more of what we've been working on with you soon 🚀

[brandur]

Hi @JanRuettinger, it's not public yet. We're working on it and @bgentry's got an early prototype which is where the screenshots come from, but it needs more work. (A very rough estimate, but) I'd cautiously slate it for release something like Q2/Q3 2024.

[bgentry]

I’m definitely trying to beat that timeline 😉 but yeah it is not quite ready yet. I hope to share more on it soon @JanRuettinger. We can leave this issue open meanwhile since this is something we are committed to shipping.

[bgentry]

@noahjamison it's really getting close now. I'm just about there on implementing the initial set of functionality in the UI (see #301) and then there's a bit of work to do around the packaging/distribution/deployment side of things for the Go API + React TS / Vite frontend. I hope to have an early version of this ready to share in the next few weeks so stay tuned 🤞

Of course there will be more to do to make it truly great (more robust, scalable, feature-rich, etc), but one step at a time

Meanwhile, if anybody has any info they want to add on what specifically they want the UI to do or how you're hoping to use it, please feel free to share.

[brandur]

Thanks @noahjamison! And for your offer of help. We're probably going to keep this an internal thing for now as the first release of the UI may be optimizing a little for functionality over perfect code quality, but we appreciate the offer.

We haven't bumped this thread in a while, but I know @bgentry's been working on this pretty constantly since the last update. It's a large chunk of work, but it's definitely coming. Still can't commit to an exact schedule, but I'd expect something in the next few months.

[umed]

Hi guys,

First of you've done tremendous work. Greatly appreciate it!

I'm too waiting for that Web UI though.

Meanwhile, if anybody has any info they want to add on what specifically they want the UI to do or how you're hoping to use it, please feel free to share.

It would be nice if we don't have to deploy Web UI per database. So, we could just connect single instance to multiple databases simultaneously and, maybe, have a dashboard per database or just property to differentiate jobs in different databases.

Thanks a lot for great work!

[safaci2000]

I would be very curious to see any updates on this even if it's beta / alpha versions.

[bgentry]

🔜 😄 🚀

[noahjamison]

Hey @bgentry and @brandur, I just starting using River and I'm a huge fan. You've clearly put a lot of work into this project and it's a joy to use. Props to you both!

One thing that would greatly improve the DX is a frontend, which I see you're working on. I'm using River for a project and would love to see a UI sooner rather than later, are you open to contributions? If you're writing it in React/Next or htmx I'd love to help out. Or If you'd rather keep it internal, I understand that too.

[noahjamison]

Sounds good, thanks for letting me know! Good luck with it, can't wait to see what you come up with.

[doron-cohen]

Hi, We too will be happy to get a beta if there will be any.

[peterldowns]

Also happy to beta-test if possible. Very excited to see it released!

there's a bit of work to do around the packaging/distribution/deployment side of things for the Go API + React TS / Vite frontend

@bgentry My application is the exact same stack, and I've got some experience with both the infra/ci/build side of things as well as the embed/serve side of things, let me know if you want help or would like to see our codebase as an example.