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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.

• Check out the first source code release in this repository and test it.
• Tell us what you think in the Discussions.
• Join the Discord server for any questions and getting to know to other community members.
• ⭐ the repository to help us raise awareness.
• Spread the word on Twitter that Documenso is working towards a more open signing tool.
• Fix or create issues, that are needed for the first production release.

• To contribute, please see our contribution guide.

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

• Typescript - Language
• ReactRouter - Framework
• Prisma - ORM
• Tailwind - CSS
• shadcn/ui - Component Library
• react-email - Email Templates
• tRPC - API
• @documenso/pdf-sign - PDF Signatures (launching soon)
• React-PDF - Viewing PDFs
• PDF-Lib - PDF manipulation
• Stripe - Payments

To run Documenso locally, you will need

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.