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# LBRY Electron # LBRY App
An electron version of the LBRY application. A decentralized content marketplace built on top of the [lbry protocol](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry)
Check out the [release page](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-app/releases/latest) to get started.
## Development
This repo uses submodules, so clone it using --recursive This repo uses submodules, so clone it using --recursive
## Setup We do most of our development work on linux and macOS so we don't have
any instructions for creating a development setup on windows. You can
checkout out the build steps in [appveyor.yml](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-app/blob/master/appveyor.yml) and probably figure out something from there.
The lbrynet library needs to be installed along with pyinstaller, and you ### Setup
need everything to be able to build the lbry-web-ui
## Build The
[lbrynet library](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry/blob/master/INSTALL.md) needs
to be installed along with pyinstaller. You also need to be
able to build the lbry-web-ui, so have node, webpack, etc installed.
run `./build.sh` to create a lbry executable, bundle the front-end and move ### Build
everything into the `app` folder
## Run run `./build.sh`
This builds the UI assets and puts them into `app/dist`. It also builds `app/dist/lbrynet-daemon`.
### Run
`./node_modules/.bin/electron app` `./node_modules/.bin/electron app`
## Package ### Package
To build a distributable package for OSX, run (on an OSX machine): We use [electron-builder](https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder)
to create distributable packages, which is run by calling:
`electron-packager --electron-version=1.4.14 --overwrite electron LBRY` `node_modules/.bin/build -p never`
This also probably works for windows and linux, but I haven't tested it
## TODO
This app works by launching the lbrynet daemon in a seperate process. Currently the
process management is very poor and the lbrynet process might not be shut-down when the app
is closed. Also, if the lbrynet daemon dies, there is no attempt to restart it.