orbit-electron

A distributed, peer-to-peer chat application built on IPFS

Desktop App for Orbit.

Currently works in OSX and Linux. We're working on Windows support.

NOTE! Orbit is still more or less experimental. It means Orbit is currently not secure, APIs will change and builds can break over the coming months. If you come across problems, it would help greatly to open issues so that we can fix them as quickly as possible.*

Built with:

• orbit-web - UI for the application which can be used as fully working Orbit client in the browser.
• orbit-core - Core Orbit communication library.
• js-ipfs - IPFS, a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.
• electron - Electron

See also:

• orbit-textui - Terminal client prototype for Orbit.
• orbit-db - Serverless, p2p database that orbit-core uses to store its data.
• IPFS - IPFS

Table of Contents

• Run
  • Download Binaries
  • Requirements
  • Get the source code
  • Start the App
  • Development
  • Run
  • Build
    • Release
  • Distributable Packages
• Contributing
• License

Run

Download Binaries

Orbit binaries will soon be available from dist.ipfs.io. Meanwhile, you'll have to build the application from the source code.

Requirements

• Node.js v6.x.x
• npm v3.x.x
• g++, gcc, make, python 2

NOTE: Orbit requires a newer version of gcc to compile crypto libraries. gcc 6.2.1 has been tested successfully, gcc 4.9.2 is known to fail at runtime.

Standard gcc versions for various distros are listed below: Arch Linux gcc 6.2.1 Debian Stretch gcc 6.2.1 Debian Jessie gcc 4.9 RHEL7 gcc 4.8 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS gcc 5.3+ OSX Uses CLANG, not gcc. Verification needed.

Get the source code

git clone https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-electron.git
cd orbit-electron/

Start the App

make start

or

npm install
npm start

Development

Run

NOTE! Before running this command, make sure you have orbit-web development server running

npm run dev

Build

Release

make build

or

npm run build

This will create binaries for OSX and Linux in bin/

Distributable Packages

make build
make dist

This will create bin/dist/orbit_master_darwin-amd64.tar.gz and bin/dist/orbit_master_linux-amd64.tar.gz and add them to IPFS.

Note: electron names the folders after the arch, and uses the x64 nomenclature instead of amd64. They are the same thing; we create tarballs with amd64 to match the golang distributions on ipfs/distributions.

Contributing

If you think this could be better, please open an issue!

Please note that all interactions in @orbitdb fall under our Code of Conduct.

License

MIT © 2015-2018 Protocol Labs Inc., Haja Networks Oy