lbry-desktop/README.md

Odysee Frontend - Odysee.com

This repo contains the UI and front end code that powers Odysee.com.

Table of Contents

1. Usage
2. Running from Source
3. Contributing
4. License
5. Security
6. Contact

Usage

Double click the installed application to interact with the LBRY network.

Running from Source

You can run the web version (lbry.tv), the electron app, or both at the same time.

Prerequisites

• Git
• Node.js (v14 required)
• Yarn

1. Clone (or fork) this repository: git clone https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop
2. Change directory into the cloned repository: cd lbry-desktop
3. Install the dependencies: yarn

Run the web app for development

yarn dev:web

• This uses webpack-dev-server and includes hot-reloading. If you want to debug the web server we use in production you can run yarn dev:web-server. This starts a server at localhost:1337 and does not include hot reloading.

Customize the web app

• In root directory, duplicate the .env.default file and rename it to .env then copy the code below and paste it anywhere in the .env file.

cp .env.defaults .env
nano .env

• To specify your own OG-IMAGE You can either place a png named v2-og.png in the /custom folder or specify the OG_IMAGE_URL in .env

• To specify your own channels to be followed on first run AUTO_FOLLOW_URLS=lbry://@chan#123...a lbry://@chan2#456...a

• If you want to customize the homepage content

1. add CUSTOM_HOMEPAGE=true to the '.env' file
2. copy /custom/homepage.example.js to /custom/homepage.js and make desired changes to homepage.js

• If you want up to two custom sidebar links

PINNED_URI_1=@someurl#2/someclaim#4
PINNED_LABEL_1=Linktext

PINNED_URI_2=$/discover?t=tag&[queryparams]
PINNED_LABEL_2=OtherLinkText

• Finally NODE_ENV=production yarn compile:web to rebuild Note: You don't need to edit the .env file in the /web folder - that is copied during compile.

Deploy the web app (experimental)

1. Create a server with a domain name and a reverse proxy https to port 1337.
2. Install pm2, node v10, yarn
3. Clone this repo
4. Make any customizations as above
5. Run yarn to install
6. Run NODE_ENV=production yarn compile:web to build
7. Set up pm2 to start ./web/index.js

Resetting your Packages

If the app isn't building, or yarn xxx commands aren't working you may need to just reset your node_modules. To do so you can run: rm -r node_modules && yarn or del /s /q node_modules && yarn on Windows.

If you really think something might have gone wrong, you can force your repo to clear everything that doesn't match the repo with git reset --hard HEAD && git clean -fxd && git pull -r

Contributing

We ❤️ contributions from everyone and contributions to this project are encouraged, and compensated. We welcome bug reports, bug fixes and feedback is always appreciated. For more details, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

This project is MIT licensed. For the full license, see LICENSE.

Security

We take security seriously. Please contact security@odysee.com regarding any security issues. Our PGP key is here if you need it. Previous versions up to v0.50.2 were signed by Sean Yesmunt. New Releases are signed by Jessop Breth.