A mobile-first Lemmy web client
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Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!
What does Voyager currently support?
- Light/dark mode
- View and subscribe to communities
- Multi account support
- Single comment thread context view
- Upvote, downvote and reply to threads and comments
- Interact with user profiles
- Comment thread collapsing
- A bunch of swipe gestures
- Messaging, mentions and replies
- Creating new posts (url/photo/text)
- Deleting/editing comments
- Deleting/editing posts
- Swipe to hide posts
- Saving/bookmarking
- Favorites
- Android theme (beta)
What is on the roadmap?
- More customization
- Native notifications and badging
- Mod features
- Translations
- ...and more!
Native apps can be great, but we believe in the strengths of the web. Why use a web-based Lemmy client?
- Cross-platform Use the familiar Voyager interface on your phone, tablet, desktop computer, and more!
- Self-hostable No worries about your favorite app getting taken down, and you can customize to your desire!
- Lightweight No large installation bundles - and it's easy to try it out
The Voyager team maintains a deployment at:
- 🐭 Production: vger.app
There are two ways you can run Voyager as a PWA in a production environment. The recommended method is using docker. We also support a traditional deployment method without docker. Read below to see how to get each method set up.
CUSTOM_LEMMY_SERVERS(optional) e.g.lemmy.world,lemmy.ml,sh.itjust.works- a comma separated list of suggested servers. The first will be used as default view for logged out users. You can specify only one if you want.
In order to host Voyager yourself you can use the provided Dockerfile to build a container with Voyager. The Docker container itself does not provide any SSL/TLS handling. You'll have to add this bit yourself. One could put Voyager behind popular reverse proxies with SSL Handling like Traefik, NGINX etc.
Tip: Use Watchtower to keep your deployment automatically up to date!
- checkout source
git clone https://github.com/aeharding/voyager.git - go into new source dir:
cd voyager - build Docker image:
docker build . -t voyager - start container:
docker run --init --rm -it -p 5314:5314 voyager
- pull image
docker pull ghcr.io/aeharding/voyager:latest - start container:
docker run --init --rm -it -p 5314:5314 voyager
Note: The provided Dockerfile creates a container which will eventually run Voyager as non-root user.
If you want to run a production build without Docker, you can build from source and run with the following commands (change PORT to whatever you prefer):
pnpm install
pnpm build
NODE_ENV=production PORT=5106 node server.mjs- 🇫🇮 m.lemmy.world - Voyager hosted by the mastodon.world team. Contact/privacy
- 🇸🇬 v.opnxng.com - Voyager hosted by Opnxng in Singapore. Contact/privacy
- 🇲🇽 voyager.nohost.network - Voyager hosted by Nohost in Mexico. Contact/privacy
- 🇺🇸 vger.thesanewriter.com - Voyager hosted by the lemmy.thesanewriter.com team. Contact/privacy
Note: Community deployments are NOT maintained by the Voyager team. They may not be synced with Voyager's source code. Please do your own research about the host servers before using them.
If you're enjoying Voyager, you can sponsor it:
We would also appreciate sponsoring other contributors to Voyager. If someone helps you solve an issue or implement a feature you wanted, supporting them would help make this project and OS more sustainable.
We're really excited that you're interested in contributing to Voyager! Before contributing, make sure you read through existing issues. Before working on a large PR, please open an issue to discuss first.
Clone the repository and run on the root folder:
pnpm install
pnpm run dev
Warning: you will need corepack enabled.
To build the iOS native app:
Then, build the project and copy web dependencies over:
corepack enable
pnpm install
ionic capacitor build iosFinally, can run the project with CMD+R.
To build the Android native app:
- Install Node
- Install Ionic CLI
- Install Android Studio
In Voyager source code directory:
corepack enable
pnpm install
ionic capacitor build androidAndroid Studio should open.
You may need to sync. File -> Sync Project with Gradle Files
Finally, can run the project with Ctrl+R.
Voyager uses Vitest. You can run the test suite with:
pnpm test
To release a new version:
BUILD=123; npx release-itMake sure the build number is incremental. This is used for F-droid.
Voyager uses Ionic App Flow for Apple App Store and Android Play Store builds. Those builds are initiated and monitored by Github Actions, where logs may be inspected.
Voyager's Android and iOS builds are reproducible! In fact, F-droid independently builds Voyager and verifies the same compiled APK is provided in Github Releases.
Note: F-droid and Github Releases binaries are built with BUILD_FOSS_ONLY=true. This removes all nonfree dependencies, currently just Google Play in-app purchases.
Voyager works best added to the homescreen. There are certain features that only work there, like badging and smooth page transitions.
- React - The library for web and native user interfaces
- Vite - Next Generation Frontend Tooling
- Ionic - The mobile SDK for the Web
- Virtua - A zero-config, fast and small virtual list
- vite-plugin-pwa - Prompt for update, Web Push Notifications and Web Share Target API
Shoutout to @fer0n for the great logo and splashscreen! And thank you 💙 all of our contributors to the codebase:
- Default Logo & Splashscreen: CC BY-SA 4.0 © @fer0n
- Default Android themed icon: CC BY-SA 4.0 © @Donno
AGPL-3.0 © Voyager contributors