![Borealis Logo](https://github.com/bunny-lab-io/Borealis/blob/main/Data/Server/WebUI/public/Borealis_Logo_Full.png) **Borealis** is an all-in-one visual automation platform. Whether you want to automate data flows, control a computer, extract data from images, or connect to APIs and webhooks, Borealis turns these advanced tasks into a simple, visual drag-and-drop experience. Borealis began as a visual node-graph builder. It is now evolving into a centralized remote management and automation platform that still embraces visual workflows, while prioritizing fleet orchestration, inventory, and scripted automations at-scale. Items marked (*roadmap*) indicate forward-looking capabilities under active design. ![Device List](Data/Repository_Resources/Device_List.png) ![Script Editor](Data/Repository_Resources/Script_Editor.png) ![Workflow Editor](Data/Repository_Resources/Workflow_Editor.png) ## Youtube Video Demonstration: You can click the image below to watch a youtube video demonstrating the deployment, launching, and basic example usage of Borealis. [![Borealis Usage Demonstration](Data/Repository_Resources/data_workflow_example_01.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GLolR70CTo) ## 🚀 What Is Borealis? Imagine building automations and powerful data workflows by *connecting blocks on a canvas* - and having them come to life in real time. Borealis is a cross-platform, live-editable automation tool that makes it possible to create, test, and run workflows with **zero coding required** (unless you want to). Beyond the canvas, Borealis is growing into a centralized control-plane for remote device management and automation (*roadmap*). The canvas remains your design surface, while remote agents and a management console coordinate inventory, policy, and script execution across fleets. Borealis combines: * **A powerful visual graph editor** (built with React Flow) * **A real-time backend server** (Python Flask *or* Vite + WebSockets) * **Optional Python Agent** for advanced computer automation (screenshot, overlays, and more) * **Live node updates, instant feedback, no restarts required** * **Emerging remote agent fleet** for Windows/Linux/macOS management (*roadmap*) * **Central management console** for inventory, targeting, and job orchestration (*roadmap*) --- ## ✨ Key Features | Feature | What It Means For You | | ------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Visual Editor** | Drag-and-drop nodes to build workflows just like drawing a flowchart | | **Live Data Updates** | Every node reacts instantly as data changes, thanks to a shared “memory bus” | | **No-Code and Low-Code Friendly** | Start with zero code — but add custom nodes if you want power-user features | | **Hot-Reloading, Developer-Friendly** | Add, edit, or even break nodes while Borealis is running. UI recovers, dev server restarts instantly — *no crashes, no frustration* | | **Real-Time Computer Automation** | Take screenshots, control keyboard, and send actions to your PC with the Borealis Agent | | **OCR & Computer Vision** | Extract text from images and screenshots with Tesseract and EasyOCR, ready to flow into your automation | | **Data Ingestion & Manipulation** | Ingest data from files, APIs, manual input, or other sources — then filter, search, transform, or export it | | **API Requests & Webhooks** | Talk to REST APIs, integrate with web services, and hook Borealis into other tools | | **Extensible Node Library** | Add your own custom nodes or use the included library for data, images, math, logic, reporting, and more | | **Undo & Resilience** | Made a mistake editing a node or the UI? No worries - just fix it and reload. The included Vite dev server makes changes appear instantly | | **Cross-Platform** | Works on Windows, Linux, macOS - one-click launch scripts included | | **Centralized Management (roadmap)** | Manage agents, groups, policies, and jobs from one console | | **Agent Inventory (roadmap)** | Collect device facts: installed software, OS, storage, networking, last logged-in user | | **Script Orchestration (roadmap)** | Push/schedule PowerShell, Bash, Batch scripts and Ansible playbooks with outputs and audit trails | | **Compliance & Audit (roadmap)** | Define baselines, detect drift, and export reports for fleet state | --- ## 🧰 What Can You Build With Borealis? * **Data Pipelines:** Move data between files, APIs, spreadsheets, and apps * **Automated Reports:** Process and transform information, then export to CSV * **Image Analysis:** Use OCR nodes to read text from screenshots and images (great for extracting data from anything on screen) * **Computer Automation:** Trigger keypresses, capture screens, and even run scheduled macros * **APIs & Webhooks:** Build visual flows that connect to any REST API, fetch data, and process responses * **Real-Time Dashboards:** Build custom, live-updating dashboards by wiring together data nodes and viewers * **Rapid Prototyping:** Instantly test ideas - drop in new nodes, see your changes live, and never fear breaking things * **Remote Fleet Automations (*roadmap*):** Run scripts/playbooks across targeted devices, roll out changes safely at scale * **Inventory & Auditing (*roadmap*):** Query installed software, OS versions, storage/networking, and last logged-in activity * **Runbook Automation (*roadmap*):** Design visual runbooks in the canvas and execute them remotely with approvals and logging --- ## 🏆 Why Borealis Stands Out * **Instant Feedback:** Every change is live. No need to restart — just drag, connect, or edit and see results instantly. * **No Fear Development:** Messed up a node file? UI won't crash; just fix the file, save, and Borealis will hot-reload it. * **Beginner Friendly:** If you can use a mouse, you can use Borealis. But it grows with you as you learn. * **Unified Canvas + Control Plane (*roadmap*):** Design visually, orchestrate remotely, and observe everything from a single place. --- ## 🔭 Future Potential (What Borealis Could Become) Borealis is already a swiss-army knife in the works - but here's just a taste of what's coming, or at-least possible, thanks to its modular, node-based design: As Borealis pivots toward centralized remote management, these *roadmap* items lead the way: * **Centralized Remote Management (*roadmap*):** Unified console for device inventory, status, tagging, grouping, and targeting. * **Script & Playbook Distribution (*roadmap*):** Deploy and run PowerShell, Bash, Batch, and Ansible playbooks across fleets; collect outputs and act upon them in meaningful ways. * **Inventory & Insights (*roadmap*):** Agents report installed software, OS details, storage, networking, users (e.g., last logged-in), and custom facts. * **Policy & Compliance (*roadmap*):** Define desired state baselines, detect drift, and trigger remediation workflows. * **Governance & Safety (*roadmap*):** RBAC, approvals, change windows, versioned script catalog, and secrets management. * **Event-Driven Automations (*roadmap*):** Triggers from inventory changes, schedules, or webhooks to run workflows or scripts. * **Scalable Orchestration (*roadmap*):** Target by groups/tags/queries, staggered rollouts, retries, and robust job auditing. * **Smart Automation:** Automatically detect patterns, trigger workflows from email, websites, or events. * **Machine Learning Nodes:** Drag-and-drop AI tasks — run models, analyze data, or classify images/text. * **IoT & Device Integration:** Control or monitor physical devices, sensors, and smart home gadgets. * **Advanced Scheduling:** Visual “when/if/then” automation, with scheduling, event triggers, and more. * **Multi-User Collaboration:** Share, co-edit, or run workflows with others — team automation made simple. * **Plug-in Marketplace:** Install new nodes and integrations from the community, just like adding apps. * **Web Scraping & Automation:** Visual web scraping, browser automation, and data collection tools. * **Full API/Webhook In/Out:** Integrate with Zapier, IFTTT, or any tool that speaks HTTP. --- ## 💡 How Borealis Works (In Plain English) 1. **You build a flow** by dragging “nodes” onto a canvas and connecting them. 2. **Each node** does something — like reading a file, fetching an API, or processing an image. 3. **Live data flows** through the graph in real time. Change a value? Every downstream node updates automatically. 4. **The shared “Value Bus”** means nodes always see the latest data. No refreshes needed. 5. **Power-users and developers** can add their own nodes, or tweak the UI, with changes appearing instantly - even if you make a mistake. 6. **Agents report facts (*roadmap*):** Lightweight agents send inventory and telemetry back to the server. 7. **Control-plane orchestrates jobs (*roadmap*):** Target devices by groups/tags and run scripts/playbooks with audit trails. --- ## 📈 Current Node Library (and Always Growing!) * **Data Nodes:** Manual input, data passing, array extraction, JSON handling, etc. * **Image Nodes:** Upload, preview, adjust contrast, grayscale, threshold, export, etc. * **OCR Nodes:** Extract text from images/screenshots using Tesseract/EasyOCR. * **Logic/Math Nodes:** Comparisons, math operations, logic gates, and more. * **Agent Nodes:** Remote screenshot, macro keypress (*work-in-progress*), automation of foreground windows. * **Reporting Nodes:** Export to CSV (*work-in-progress*) (future: other formats). * **API/Web Nodes:** API requests, regex, text manipulation, etc. * **Organization Nodes:** Grouping/backdrop for neat, readable graphs. (*work-in-progress*) * **Remote Action Nodes:** Dispatch and track script/playbook runs across agents (*roadmap*). --- ## 🤝 Who Is Borealis For? * **Automation geeks** who want a real-time, visual playground * **Data analysts** who want to prototype and visualize data flows * **Developers** who want a safe, forgiving testbed for new ideas * **IT admins / SREs (*roadmap focus*):** Centralize fleet inventory, enforce policy, and orchestrate scripted changes at scale --- ## 🚦 Getting Started 1. **Download Borealis** 2. **Run the launcher:** * Windows: `.\Borealis.ps1` * Linux/macOS: `bash Borealis.sh` 3. **Open the web UI** in your browser. --- ## 🎁 Borealis Is Just Getting Started Borealis is **more than a tool** - As the platform pivots toward centralized remote management, expect deeper inventory, script orchestration (PowerShell/Bash/Batch/Ansible), and governance-first workflows to land over time (*roadmap*). **Start automating your ideas, today.** --- ## ⚡Reverse Proxy Configuration If you want to run Borealis behind a reverse proxy (e.g., Traefik), you can set up the following dynamic configuration: ```yml http: routers: borealis: entryPoints: - websecure tls: certResolver: letsencrypt service: borealis rule: "Host(`borealis.bunny-lab.io`) && PathPrefix(`/`)" middlewares: - cors-headers middlewares: cors-headers: headers: accessControlAllowOriginList: - "*" accessControlAllowMethods: - GET - POST - OPTIONS accessControlAllowHeaders: - Content-Type - Upgrade - Connection accessControlMaxAge: 100 addVaryHeader: true services: borealis: loadBalancer: servers: - url: "http://192.168.3.254:5173" passHostHeader: true ```