Peruse

About

An electron web browser. Built to be a basis. Extendable by design.

Development

• git clone [email protected]:joshuef/peruse.git
• cd peruse
• yarn
• yarn rebuild

And to run dev mode, ensure you run yarn with NODE_ENV=dev set:

• yarn dev

Want to run 'production' variables, but with hot reloading? Ensure you run the initial yarn with NODE_ENV= set, then:

• yarn live-dev Note, you'll need a crust.config set for the application. Helper commands are available on osx/linux (not windows yet, sorry! this is only temporary.)

And to package:

• yarn package

The resulting packages are contained within the releases folder.

Build commands

There are a few build commands for various situations:

• yarn dev will run a peruse developer version of the application using MockVault
• yarn live-dev will run a peruse developer version of the application using the live network.
• yarn build compiles all code, but you shouldn't need to use this
• yarn build-preload will need to be run whenever you change the preload.js file for changes to show up in the browser.

Redux

The core is built around redux for simple state management allowing for easy extensibility.

React

The interface is built in react for simple data flow and clear componentisation.

Webpack

webpack.config.base contains loaders and alias' used across all webpack configs.

There is a prod, config. Alongside renderer configs.

When developing against hot reloading, the vendor setup is used to speed up build times etc.

There are 'dev' mode configs for running against the NODE_ENV=develeopment setup. There are 'live-dev' configs for running against NODE_ENV=production but without needing to package.

Testing

• yarn test runs jest (you have the optional yarn test-watch, too).
• yarn test e2e runs spectron integration tests (not yet stable).
• yarn lint ...lints...

Logging

Via electron-log: import logger from 'logger', and you can logger.info('things').

Logs are printed to both render console and stdout. Logs are also written to a log file per system.

yarn log-osx will tail the file. Similar commands (as yet untested) exist for linux/windows.

SAFE Network

The safe code is contained within the app/extensions folder. This includes a simple http server with is used to provide the http like functionalities of the safe network.

Currently you need to authenticate against the SAFE Browser to get network access.

Authenticator

Currently, we're using a temp_dist version of the authenticator webapp, prebuilt from the 'beaker-plugin-safe-authenticator'.

• APIs are located in app/extensions/safe/api;
• APIs are located in app/extensions/safe/auth-api;