docker-gephi-lite

A Docker container that serves Gephi Lite - the open-source graph exploration and visualization tool - as static assets rooted at /, so it drops cleanly behind a reverse proxy or alongside other web apps on the same host.

Maintained by PSA Intelligence.

Features

Gephi Lite runs entirely in the browser - this container only ships the compiled static build with nginx. There is no server-side processing, persistence layer, or graph compute endpoint.

• Root-served - served from / so it can sit behind any reverse proxy without path rewriting.
• Static hosting - shipped as a single nginx container, trivially deployable behind any reverse proxy or load balancer.
• Pinned upstream releases - each image tag is built from a specific gephi/gephi-lite release for reproducibility.

Quick start

Images are published to both Docker Hub and the GitHub Container Registry (GHCR). Pick whichever registry you prefer - the image content is identical.

# Docker Hub
docker pull psaintelligence/gephi-lite:latest

# GHCR
docker pull ghcr.io/psaintelligence/gephi-lite:latest

# Run on http://localhost:8080/
docker run -d \
  --name gephi-lite \
  -p 8080:80 \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  psaintelligence/gephi-lite:latest

Open http://localhost:8080/ in your browser.

Docker Compose

services:
  gephi-lite:
    image: ghcr.io/psaintelligence/gephi-lite:latest  # or psaintelligence/gephi-lite:latest
    ports:
      - "8080:80"
    restart: unless-stopped

docker compose up -d

Serving behind a reverse proxy

Because the app is rooted at /, you can place it behind any front proxy. Example with nginx upstream:

location / {
    proxy_pass http://gephi-lite:80/;
    proxy_set_header Host              $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
}

Container Repos

• Docker Hub - https://hub.docker.com/r/psaintelligence/gephi-lite
• GHCR - https://github.com/psaintelligence/docker-gephi-lite/pkgs/container/gephi-lite

Building from source

This repository clones the upstream gephi/gephi-lite source at a pinned tag, runs npm install + npm run build with BASE_URL=/, then ships the compiled static output with nginx.

git clone https://github.com/psaintelligence/docker-gephi-lite.git
cd docker-gephi-lite

# Build with the default upstream tag (@gephi/gephi-lite@1.0.2)
docker build -t gephi-lite:local .

# Build against a different upstream tag
docker build -t gephi-lite:local \
  --build-arg COMMIT_TAG='@gephi/gephi-lite@1.0.2' .

docker run --rm -p 8080:80 gephi-lite:local

See the Dockerfile for the full multi-stage build definition.

Related image - gephi-lite-path

An additional Docker image, gephi-lite-path, is maintained in the sibling repository docker-gephi-lite-path. It serves the same Gephi Lite build rooted at /gephi-lite/ instead of /, making it suitable for hosting alongside other web apps on the same host without path conflicts.

• Container source - https://github.com/psaintelligence/docker-gephi-lite-path
• Docker Hub - https://hub.docker.com/r/psaintelligence/gephi-lite-path
• GHCR - https://github.com/psaintelligence/docker-gephi-lite-path/pkgs/container/gephi-lite-path

docker pull psaintelligence/gephi-lite-path:latest
# Served at http://localhost:8080/gephi-lite/

Credits

• Upstream project - gephi/gephi-lite.

License

GNU General Public License v3.0 - see LICENSE.