Developing the Boundary User Interface

For detailed instructions and the most up-to-date information on developing the Boundary admin UI, please consult the project README on GitHub.

Run a Local Fork of the UI Locally in Dev Mode

If you’re developing the Boundary UI locally you can point a dev mode server at a local checkout of the repo without building it into the binary. We call this directory a passthrough directory, and you can enable it using an env var while in conjunction with running Boundary in dev mode:

BOUNDARY_DEV_UI_PASSTHROUGH_DIR=../boundary-ui/ui/admin/dist boundary dev

BOUNDARY_DEV_UI_PASSTHROUGH_DIR=../boundary-ui/ui/admin/dist boundary dev