A bold, neobrutalist VPN control panel — powered by 
and shipped to 
in one click.
Clean client links. Live stats. Gorgeous subscription pages. No config, no fuss.
Tip
Fork → Deploy on Railway → Expose port 8080 → Open the panel. Four steps, zero config, live in minutes.
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One job, done right No feature bloat. SideRail masters HTTP-based transports behind a TLS edge — every link is clean, standard, and always |
Impossible to ignore A loud neobrutalist UI — thick borders, hard shadows, animated icons — that looks razor-sharp on phone and desktop alike. |
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Deploy and forget Xray-core pulls itself on first boot, the session secret is generated for you, and the DB just works. Zero environment variables required. |
Team-friendly The Owner adds Admins with scoped page access and personal data quotas — and every Admin only ever sees the users they created. |
| Dashboard | Live CPU, RAM, Swap and Storage metrics, plus one-click Backup & Restore of users, inbounds, admins and settings. |
| Users | Rich create form, summary cards, a fully responsive table, live Connected IPs, and per-user actions. |
| Inbounds | Five HTTP inbounds auto-seeded on first boot. Enable or disable only, each with a unique port and /SideRail/... path. |
| Activity Log | A live timeline of every administrative event. |
| Settings & Admins | Owner and Admin roles, scoped permissions, and per-admin data quotas. |
| Subscription | A gorgeous per-user page with a live usage chart, QR codes and a base64 subscription for clients. |
| Security | JWT sessions, built-in rate limiting, and sniffing fully disabled to prevent the QUIC crash. |
No code required. Just follow these steps:
1. Fork this repository — click Fork at the top-right to copy it to your GitHub account.
2. Create a Railway project — head to 
, then New Project → Deploy from GitHub repo, and pick your fork.
3. Deploy — Railway reads the Dockerfile and railway.json and builds automatically.
4. Expose port 8080 — open Settings → Networking → Generate Domain, and set the port to 8080.
Important
SideRail listens on port 8080 — this is the only port you expose. The ports 10085 and 20000–20004 are Xray's internal ports bound to 127.0.0.1; they are private and must not be exposed.
5. Add a volume (optional) — attach a Volume at /data so users, admins and settings survive redeploys.
6. Open your panel — visit the generated *.up.railway.app domain, land on the Setup page, and create your Owner account.
All optional.
| Variable | Default | Description |
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PORT |
8080 |
HTTP port. Expose this one on Railway. |
JWT_SECRET |
auto | Signs admin session cookies. Auto-generated and persisted if unset. |
XRAY_VERSION |
v26.9.9 |
Xray-core release fetched on first boot. |
SIDERAIL_DATA_DIR |
/data |
Persistent data directory (mount a volume here). |
PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
auto | Override for a custom domain. Falls back to RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN. |
XRAY_API_PORT |
10085 |
Internal Xray stats API port. |
XRAY_INBOUND_BASE_PORT |
20000 |
Base port for internal inbound listeners. |
apps/
├─ web/ React + Vite + Tailwind (neobrutalism) frontend
│ └─ src/
│ ├─ components/ui/ Reusable neobrutalist primitives
│ ├─ pages/ Dashboard · Users · Inbounds · Activity · Settings · Setup · Login · Subscription
│ └─ lib/ API client, auth context, helpers
└─ server/ Express + Node (node:sqlite) backend
└─ src/
├─ xray.ts Binary fetch, process manager, traffic stats, client IPs
├─ xray-config.ts Config builder (sniffing fully disabled)
├─ tunnel.ts WS/HTTPUpgrade via net.Socket, XHTTP via http-proxy
├─ links.ts VLESS/VMess/Trojan link generation
├─ inbounds.ts Default inbound seeding + enable/disable
├─ users.ts User model, traffic reset, sub-token logic
├─ auth.ts Owner/Admin roles, permissions, sessions
├─ ratelimit.ts Rate limiting / brute-force protection
└─ routes.ts Authenticated REST API
How traffic flows — TLS is terminated at the Railway edge; all client links use security=tls on port 443. The Node process routes WebSocket/HTTPUpgrade to Xray via raw net.Socket, and XHTTP through an HTTP proxy. Only ws, httpupgrade and xhttp are supported — raw TCP, gRPC, WireGuard and Hysteria are intentionally left out because they don't survive the edge.
Requires Node.js ≥ 22.5 (Node 24 recommended).
npm install # install all workspaces
npm run dev # web on :5173, server on :8080 (proxied)
npm run build # production build (web + server)
npm start # serve API + built frontend on :8080
Countless late nights and a lot of coffee went into this. If SideRail powers your setup, a small crypto tip goes straight back into keeping it fast, secure and free for everyone.
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SideRail is proprietary software. © 2025 icubaby — all rights reserved.
It is published for transparency and personal self-hosting only. You are welcome to fork and run your own instance, but the following are strictly prohibited without prior written permission:
- Selling, reselling, or offering SideRail (or any derivative) as a paid product or service.
- White-labeling or re-branding it under another name.
- Removing or altering the icubaby / SideRail attribution, branding, logos, repository links, or the embedded authorship watermarks.
- Claiming authorship of the project.
The source code carries embedded authorship identifiers and watermarks used to prove origin.
