ui-server serves an HTTP API analogue of Temporal gRPC API as well as serves Temporal UI https://github.com/temporalio/ui. It can be compiled into a binary or consumed as a Go library.

ui-server is published on Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/temporalio/ui

You can run it with Temporal Server using the Temporal docker-compose.

• When running ui-server as a docker image, you can pass docker env variables to configure auth, TLS and other options. See quickstart for production. For all options refer to Dockerize config template
• Alternatively you can pass a .yaml configuration file based on the Dockerize template . Ex development.yml config

Pre-requirements:

• Go v1.18 or later installed on your development machine
• Protobuf installed on your development machine (brew install protobuf) (Note: M1 macs will need /opt/homebrew/bin on the PATH or you may get /bin/sh: protoc: command not found errors (or you can manually download protoc))

Execute from the project folder to build a binary:

make build-server

To start the server, execute

./ui-server start

• Open http://localhost:8080/ in the browser to explore the UI
• Open http://localhost:8080/openapi/ in the browser to explore HTTP API

In VSCode launch "Debug Server" script (or press F5)