LightEvent is open source, self-hosted and free event management software.
Beta Software Notice: LightEvent is currently in beta. You can read more about this on the notes for the v0.1.0 release.
The LightEvent system is comprised of two core components:
- A server application executed through the
lighteventbinary. This also serves the admin UI. - An embedded client application executed through JS and CSS files included on your website.
The features are focused on a simple experience, both for customer interaction and administration.
- Events - An event is a container for one or many event dates - either a single date, multiple dates, or more complex schedules.
- Multi-location support - Manage events for multiple physical or virtual locations, including role-based access control (RBAC) for administrator access to individual locations.
- Authentication - Lightweight and secure identity management with passwordless authentication for members (OTP via email or SMS).
- Payments - Payment policies allow collection of payment for event registration through the Stripe integration.
- Notifications - User and member notifications are available through both email and SMS.
- Single binary - Download a single binary to your desired OS or environment and run it however you want. Example setups for bare-metal/VPS, Docker, and Kubernetes are available, or use these as a starting point for your own solution.
- Embedded storage - Uses sqlite for embedded storage, so there's no DBMS to manage. Backups and replication for read-replicas could be done with Litestream.
- Tidy web footprint - LightEvent aims at keeping the client application as small as possible to ensure fast load time.
- RPC API with Twirp - Augment LightEvent with your own integrations using the API. LightEvent is built using Twirp, an awesome RPC framework built on protobuf.
Check out status of requested and planned features in our GitHub project!
To install and try LightEvent, follow the Getting Started guide.
Each release of LightEvent is heavily tested through a set of automated integration tests. We are using Playwright to test through multiple browsers on each release to ensure a consistent and bug-free experience between common browsers.
You can read more about the testing process on the website.
Welcoming any contributions! See the Contributing Guide to begin.