Is the Webstudio builder open source or an I reading it wrong?

[codewulf0]

Hello, I'm confused about the use of the term open source in Webstudio's communication. On the website it mentions that the Open Source Builder is free, but when I look on Github I only see explanations for how to build a Project that was designed on Cloud. What I was looking for is the Cloud designer on a self-hosted solution, not the final site that can be build locally. Am I misinterpreting things, or am I missing a key piece of information? Sorry if this has been asked before, I looked around but didnt find the anwser.

[kof]

It is in fact open source, AGPL licensed. What you are missing is the grasp of the architecture for hosting. Webstudio builder is built on top of a number of services.

TLDR: We haven't made it easy to self-host using docker image yet and publish & build on the same machine. We have just recently done the first steps towards this (devcontainers) and will be able to enable a self-hostable container soon. That being said we have higher priority issues and a small team, so if anyone wants to do this - it would speed it up. We are happy to answer any questions.

List of things to consider:

• Build pipeline - what happens when you hit publish (we currently use github actions to build the app using the CLI)
• Publishing pipeline - depending on how you want to host production sites, you need different strategies, we deploy to cloudflare worker for platforms, its something only we as a cloud provider need. As a consumer you would need to either decide on a different cloud (e.g. vercel, netlify, cloudflare pages) or use a self-hostable container, in which case you would be hosting both builder and the site on the same machine or you would go for some other custom strategy for publishing.
• Image resizer and converter - Cloudflare Image resizer
• AI features depend on OpenAI and Pexels
• Auth depends on Google Auth and Github Auth
• Database - Postgres, we are using supabase

[stellarpower]

Okay, thanks a lot for confirming. I'll try building it from that Dockerfile and see what happens.

[stellarpower]

Can I ask the reason it currently needs docker-in-docker?

[istarkov]

https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio/blame/main/.devcontainer/Dockerfile

[stellarpower]

I see Supabase CLI mentioned, but googling it, it can be installed using npm or distribution packages. I assume there must be a motivating reason, but I expect if it can be avoided, it would probably be easier to improve and maintain using a straightforward pod approach.

Also I get a 502 when trying to open the redirected port using github's codespace. Is this a known situation?

[istarkov]

If you run the Supabase CLI installed through npm, you'll notice that it executes a Docker container and won't work without Docker installed. This shows that some things can't be discovered just by Googling; they exist in the real world.