tailscale/README.md
Will Norris d74c771fda client/web: always use new web client; remove old client
This uses the new react-based web client for all builds, not just with
the --dev flag.

If the web client assets have not been built, the client will serve a
message that Tailscale was built without the web client, and link to
build instructions. Because we will include the web client in all of our
builds, this should only be seen by developers or users building from
source. (And eventually this will be replaced by attempting to download
needed assets as runtime.)

We do now checkin the build/index.html file, which serves the error
message when assets are unavailable.  This will also eventually be used
to trigger in CI when new assets should be built and uploaded to a
well-known location.

Updates tailscale/corp#13775

Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2023-08-28 11:11:16 -07:00

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# Tailscale
https://tailscale.com
Private WireGuard® networks made easy
## Overview
This repository contains the majority of Tailscale's open source code.
Notably, it includes the `tailscaled` daemon and
the `tailscale` CLI tool. The `tailscaled` daemon runs on Linux, Windows,
[macOS](https://tailscale.com/kb/1065/macos-variants/), and to varying degrees
on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The Tailscale iOS and Android apps use this repo's
code, but this repo doesn't contain the mobile GUI code.
Other [Tailscale repos](https://github.com/orgs/tailscale/repositories) of note:
* the Android app is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android
* the Synology package is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-synology
* the QNAP package is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-qpkg
* the Chocolatey packaging is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-chocolatey
For background on which parts of Tailscale are open source and why,
see [https://tailscale.com/opensource/](https://tailscale.com/opensource/).
## Using
We serve packages for a variety of distros and platforms at
[https://pkgs.tailscale.com](https://pkgs.tailscale.com/).
## Other clients
The [macOS, iOS, and Windows clients](https://tailscale.com/download)
use the code in this repository but additionally include small GUI
wrappers. The GUI wrappers on non-open source platforms are themselves
not open source.
## Building
We always require the latest Go release, currently Go 1.21. (While we build
releases with our [Go fork](https://github.com/tailscale/go/), its use is not
required.)
```
go install tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale{,d}
```
If you're packaging Tailscale for distribution, use `build_dist.sh`
instead, to burn commit IDs and version info into the binaries:
```
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled
```
If your distro has conventions that preclude the use of
`build_dist.sh`, please do the equivalent of what it does in your
distro's way, so that bug reports contain useful version information.
## Building the web client
To include the embedded web client (accessed via the `tailscale web` command),
you'll need to build the client assets using:
```
./tool/yarn --cwd client/web build
```
Do this before building the `tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale` binary.
## Bugs
Please file any issues about this code or the hosted service on
[the issue tracker](https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues).
## Contributing
PRs welcome! But please file bugs. Commit messages should [reference
bugs](https://docs.github.com/en/github/writing-on-github/autolinked-references-and-urls).
We require [Developer Certificate of
Origin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Certificate_of_Origin)
`Signed-off-by` lines in commits.
See `git log` for our commit message style. It's basically the same as
[Go's style](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CommitMessage).
## About Us
[Tailscale](https://tailscale.com/) is primarily developed by the
people at https://github.com/orgs/tailscale/people. For other contributors,
see:
* https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/graphs/contributors
* https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android/graphs/contributors
## Legal
WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.