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About Documenso

Signing documents digitally should be fast and easy and should be the best practice for every document signed worldwide. This is technically quite easy today, but it also introduces a new party to every signature: The signing tool providers. While this is not a problem in itself, it should make us think about how we want these providers of trust to work. Documenso aims to be the world's most trusted document-signing tool. This trust is built by empowering you to self-host Documenso and review how it works under the hood.

Join us in creating the next generation of open trust infrastructure.

Recognition

Community and Next Steps 🎯

• Try Documenso by self-hosting it or signing up at documenso.com.
• Tell us what you think in the Discussions.
• Join the Discord server for any questions and getting to know other community members.
• ⭐ the repository to help us raise awareness.
• Open detailed issues to report bugs or propose features.

Contributing

Note: We no longer accept external pull requests, aside from a small group of trusted contributors we reach out to directly. The best way to contribute is through detailed issues. Read Why We're Pausing External Pull Requests for the reasoning.

• Documenso stays open source. You can read, audit, run, and fork the code.
• To report issues or propose changes, see our contribution guide.

Contact us

Contact us if you are interested in our Enterprise plan for large organizations that need extra flexibility and control.

Tech Stack

• TypeScript - Language
• React Router v7 - Framework
• Hono - Server
• Prisma - ORM
• Tailwind CSS - CSS
• shadcn/ui + Radix UI - Component Library
• react-email - Email Templates
• Lingui - Internationalization
• tRPC - API
• @libpdf/core - PDF Signatures
• pdf.js - Viewing PDFs
• @cantoo/pdf-lib - PDF manipulation
• Stripe - Payments
• Biome - Linting & Formatting
• Playwright - E2E Testing

Local Development

Requirements

To run Documenso locally, you will need

• Node.js (v22 or above)
• Postgres SQL Database
• Docker (optional)

Developer Quickstart

Note: This is a quickstart for developers. It assumes that you have both docker and docker-compose installed on your machine.

Want to get up and running quickly? Follow these steps:

1. Fork this repository to your GitHub account.

After forking the repository, clone it to your local device by using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/documenso

2. Set up your .env file using the recommendations in the .env.example file. Alternatively, just run cp .env.example .env to get started with our handpicked defaults.

3. Run npm run dx in the root directory

   • This will spin up a postgres database and inbucket mailserver in a docker container.

4. Run npm run dev in the root directory

5. Want it even faster? Just use

npm run d

Access Points for Your Application

1. App - http://localhost:3000

2. Incoming Mail Access - http://localhost:9000

3. Database Connection Details

   • Port: 54320
   • Connection: Use your favorite database client to connect using the provided port.

4. S3 Storage Dashboard - http://localhost:9001

Developer Setup

Manual Setup

Follow the manual setup guide to configure Documenso on your local machine.

Run in Gitpod

• Click below to launch a ready-to-use Gitpod workspace in your browser.

Run in DevContainer

We support DevContainers for VSCode. Click here to get started.

Video walkthrough

If you're a visual learner and prefer to watch a video walkthrough of setting up Documenso locally, check out this video:

Docker

We provide official Docker images on DockerHub and GitHub Container Registry.

For setup instructions, see the Docker Deployment and Docker Compose guides.

Self Hosting

We support a variety of deployment methods including Docker, Docker Compose, Railway, Kubernetes, and manual deployment.

For full instructions, requirements, and configuration details, see the Self Hosting documentation.

One-Click Deploys

Railway

Render

Koyeb

Elestio

Security

If you believe you have found a security vulnerability in Documenso, please report it through our Security Policy. We prioritize private reports via GitHub Security Advisories. See SECURITY.md for scope and details.

Troubleshooting

For troubleshooting self-hosted deployments, see the Troubleshooting guide and Tips & Common Pitfalls.

I'm not receiving any emails when using the developer quickstart.

When using the developer quickstart, an Inbucket server will be spun up in a docker container that will store all outgoing emails locally for you to view.

The Web UI can be found at http://localhost:9000, while the SMTP port will be on localhost:2500.

I can't see environment variables in my package scripts.

Wrap your package script with the with:env script like such:

npm run with:env -- npm run myscript

The same can be done when using npx for one of the bin scripts:

npm run with:env -- npx myscript

This will load environment variables from your .env and .env.local files.

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