unit-e-desktop – UI

"Unit-e is an open source project that aims to provide a lean way to make payments on the internet."

This repository is the user interface that works in combination with the unit-e client.

Download the packaged wallet for Mac, Windows and Linux

Code of conduct

The Unit-e team is committed to fostering a welcoming and harassment-free environment. All participants are expected to adhere to our code of conduct.

Contribute

Be sure to read our Contributing Guidelines first

Development

Boostrapping for development:

• Download + Install Node.js® 6.4+
• Download + Install git

MacOS packages gathering tips

# 0. install Xcode application from App Store.

# 1. switch developer directory to xcode one
$ sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/

# 2. install node and yarn
$ brew install node
$ brew install yarn

Clone and install dependecies

git clone https://github.com/dtr-org/unit-e-desktop
cd unit-e-desktop
yarn install

Development with Electron

For development, we recommend using the regtest environment, which gives you full control over the blockchain and allows running various test scenarios.

Assuming you have Unit-e Core installed on your machine, the steps to launch the wallet GUI in development mode are:

1. Start the Unit-e daemon with united -regtest.
2. In a terminal, run ng serve --env=regtest to start the Angular dev server and keep it running
3. In another terminal, run yarn run start:electron:dev --regtest to start the Electron application.
   • Note: this command will auto-refresh the client on each saved change

You may then interact with the wallet GUI, as well as with the united daemon directly, using the unite-cli program.

Alternatively, if you want the daemon process to be managed by the wallet GUI, you may skip step 1 above, and change the yarn command in step 3 as follows:

yarn run start:electron:dev --regtest --daemonpath=<path/to/united>

This will instruct the wallet GUI to launch a Unit-e daemon in the background.

Command-line arguments

The command-line flags for the Electron application are:

• --v – enable verbose logging to the terminal.
• --dev – start the wallet GUI in developer mode. This automatically opens Chrome Developer Tools on client launch. Note that the developer mode requires that you start an Angular development server in another terminal (as shown above)
• --devport=XXX – connect to the Angular development server on a port other than the default of 4200.
• --datadir=<dir> – specify the directory to store the wallet and blockchain data
• --rpcport=<port>, --rpcuser=<user>, --rpcpassword=<password>, --rpcbind=<ip> – set custom Unit-e JSON-RPC connection parameters
• --proxy=<ip:port> – connect to the P2P network through SOCKS5 proxy
• --regtest – use the testing environment and connect to a daemon launched in regtest mode.
• --testnet – connect to a daemon using the testnet chain.
• --upnp – use UPnP to map the listening port
• --daemonpath – use a custom path for the Unit-e daemon started by the wallet GUI, e.g. --daemonpath=/opt/unite/bin/united

Omitting the --regtest flag forces the Electron client to connect to a testnet Unit-e daemon by default.

Running the unit tests

Run the unit tests with

ng test

This will open a browser window where the tests are running and show progress on the command line. Keep the window open to continuously run the unit tests when changing the code.

Running

Start Electron

• yarn run start:electron:fast – disables debug messages for faster startup (keep in mind using :fast disables auto-reload of app on code change)

Package Electron

Building for Windows requires the 32-bit libraries to be available.

sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib
sudo apt-get install g++-multilib

• yarn run package:win – Windows
• yarn run package:mac – OSX
• yarn run package:linux – Linux

Contributors

Join us in #unite-core-dev on FreeNode or on our developer mailing list.

Copyright

Copyright (C) 2018 Unit-e Maintainers.

Portions copyright (C) 2017-2018 Particl Maintainers.

The code in this repository is licensed under the GPL.