ComfyUI_frontend/README.md

ComfyUI_frontend

Official front-end implementation of ComfyUI.

Release Schedule

Nightly Release

Nightly releases are published daily at https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend/releases.

To use the latest nightly release, add the following command line argument to your ComfyUI launch script:

--front-end-version Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend@latest

For Windows Stand-alone Build Users

Edit your run_cpu.bat or run_nvidia_gpu.bat file as follows:

.\python_embeded\python.exe -s ComfyUI\main.py --windows-standalone-build --front-end-version Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend@latest
pause

Stable Release

Stable releases are published weekly in the ComfyUI main repository, aligned with ComfyUI backend's stable release schedule.

Feature Freeze

There will be a 2-day feature freeze before each stable release. During this period, no new major features will be merged.

Release Summary

Major features

v1.2.4: Node library sidebar tab

Drag & Drop

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/853e20b7-bc0e-49c9-bbce-a2ba7566f92f

Filter

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4bbca3ee-318f-4cf0-be32-a5a5541066cf

v1.2.0: Queue/History sidebar tab

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/86e264fe-4d26-4f07-aa9a-83bdd2d02b8f

v1.1.0: Node search box

Fuzzy search & Node preview

Release link with shift

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a1b2b5c3-10d1-4256-b620-345de6858f25

QoL changes

v1.3.1: **Litegraph** Shift drag link to create a new link

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v1.2.44: **Litegraph** Double click group title to edit

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5bf0e2b6-8b3a-40a7-b44f-f0879e9ad26f

v1.2.39: **Litegraph** Group selected nodes with Ctrl + G

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7805dc54-0854-4a28-8bcd-4b007fa01151

v1.2.38: **Litegraph** Double click node title to edit

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d61d5d0e-f200-4153-b293-3e3f6a212b30

v1.2.7: **Litegraph** drags multiple links with shift pressed

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/68826715-bb55-4b2a-be6e-675cfc424afe

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c142c43f-2fe9-4030-8196-b3bfd4c6977d

v1.2.2: **Litegraph** auto connects to correct slot

Before

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c253f778-82d5-4e6f-aec0-ea2ccf421651

After

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b6360ac0-f0d2-447c-9daa-8a2e20c0dc1d

v1.1.8: **Litegraph** hides text overflow on widget value

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5696a89d-4a47-4fcc-9e8c-71e1264943f2

Node developers API

v1.3.7: Register commands and keybindings

Extensions can call the following API to register commands and keybindings. Do note that keybindings defined in core cannot be overwritten, and some keybindings are reserved by the browser.

  app.registerExtension({
    name: 'TestExtension1',
    commands: [
      {
        id: 'TestCommand',
        function: () => {
          alert('TestCommand')
        }
      }
    ],
    keybindings: [
      {
        combo: { key: 'k' },
        commandId: 'TestCommand'
      }
    ]
  })

v1.3.1: Extension API to register custom topbar menu items

Extensions can call the following API to register custom topbar menu items.

  app.registerExtension({
    name: 'TestExtension1',
    commands: [
      {
        id: 'foo-id',
        label: 'foo',
        function: () => {
          alert(1)
        }
      }
    ],
    menuCommands: [
      {
        path: ['ext', 'ext2'],
        commands: ['foo-id']
      }
    ]
  })

v1.2.27: Extension API to add toast message

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Extensions can call the following API to add toast messages.

  app.extensionManager.toast.add({
    severity: 'info',
    summary: 'Loaded!',
    detail: 'Extension loaded!',
    life: 3000
  })

Documentation of all supported options can be found here: https://primevue.org/toast/#api.toast.interfaces.ToastMessageOptions

v1.2.4: Extension API to register custom sidebar tab

Extensions now can call the following API to register a sidebar tab.

  app.extensionManager.registerSidebarTab({
    id: "search",
    icon: "pi pi-search",
    title: "search",
    tooltip: "search",
    type: "custom",
    render: (el) => {
      el.innerHTML = "<div>Custom search tab</div>";
    },
  });

The list of supported icons can be found here: https://primevue.org/icons/#list

We will support custom icons later.

Development

Git pre-commit hooks

Run npm run prepare to install Git pre-commit hooks. Currently, the pre-commit hook is used to auto-format code on commit.

Dev Server

Note: The dev server will NOT load any extension from the ComfyUI server. Only core extensions will be loaded.

• Run npm install to install the necessary packages
• Start local ComfyUI backend at localhost:8188
• Run npm run dev to start the dev server

Test

• git clone https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI_examples.git to tests-ui/ComfyUI_examples or the EXAMPLE_REPO_PATH location specified in .env
• npm i to install all dependencies
• npm run test:generate to fetch tests-ui/data/object_info.json
• npm run test:generate:examples to extract the example workflows
• npm run test to execute all unit tests.

LiteGraph

This repo is using litegraph package hosted on https://github.com/Comfy-Org/litegraph.js. Any changes to litegraph should be submitted in that repo instead.

Test litegraph changes

• Run npm link in the local litegraph repo.
• Run npm uninstall @comfyorg/litegraph in this repo.
• Run npm link @comfyorg/litegraph in this repo.

This will replace the litegraph package in this repo with the local litegraph repo.

Deploy

• Option 1: Set DEPLOY_COMFYUI_DIR in .env and run npm run deploy.
• Option 2: Copy everything under dist/ to ComfyUI/web/ in your ComfyUI checkout manually.

Publish release to ComfyUI main repo

Run following command to publish a release to ComfyUI main repo. The script will create a new branch and do a commit to web/ folder by checkout dist.zip from GitHub release.

• python scripts/main_repo_release.py <path_to_comfyui_main_repo> <version>