Issue tracking and project management for development teams.
Devlane helps you organize work in workspaces and projects: track issues, assign owners, group work into cycles and modules, and keep everything in sync with a clear activity feed and rich comments.
You can run Devlane in two ways:
- Self-hosted — Run the API and UI on your own infrastructure. You need PostgreSQL, Redis, and optionally RabbitMQ and MinIO (see the API and UI READMEs for environment variables and setup).
- From source — Clone the repo and run the API and UI for local development or your own deployment.
| Method | Notes |
|---|---|
| Docker | Use the API and UI Dockerfiles (or compose) with the required env and database migrations. |
| From source | See Local development below. |
Instance administrators can manage workspaces and instance settings from the instance-admin area after initial setup.
- Issues (work items) — Create and manage issues with description, state, priority, assignees, labels, and parent/child links. Sub-issues and a properties sidebar keep context in one place.
- Cycles — Group issues into time-boxed cycles and track progress.
- Modules — Break projects into modules for clearer scope and status.
- Views — Filter and save views so you can focus on the right issues.
- Activity and comments — Each issue has an activity feed. Add and edit comments with a rich text editor (bold, lists, code blocks). Edit and delete comments with relative timestamps.
- Pages — Lightweight docs and notes linked to your workspace.
- Analytics — Overview and work-item analytics to see progress and trends.
- Workspace settings — Manage members (with display names), projects, and workspace-level configuration.
- API — From the
apps/apidirectory, copy.env.exampleto.env, set your PostgreSQL and Redis (and optional RabbitMQ/MinIO) settings, run migrations, then start the server (seeapps/api/README.md). - UI — From the
apps/webdirectory, runnpm installandnpm run dev. Point the UI at your local API using the configured base URL. - First run — Complete instance setup in the browser (create admin account, then create a workspace and project).
For contribution workflow and code style, see CONTRIBUTING if present.
- API — See
apps/api/README.mdfor setup, env vars, and running the server. - UI — See
apps/web/README.mdfor front-end setup and scripts.
Contributions are welcome. Please open an issue for bugs or feature ideas, and read CONTRIBUTING for pull request and development guidelines.
AI-assisted contributions are accepted, but must be disclosed — note the tool in the PR's AI assistance section and add a Co-Authored-By: trailer to AI-assisted commits. See CONTRIBUTING.
This project is licensed under the Devlane Software License. It grants you broad use and modification rights (MIT-style) but does not allow selling the software or offering it as a hosted/subscription service to third parties. See LICENSE for the full text. This license is not OSI-approved open source.