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LBRY Electron

An electron version of the LBRY application.

Setup

Need to have the lbry-web-ui and lbry repos in a folder next to lbry-electron. For example, my directory structure looks like

$HOME/projects/lbryio/lbry
$HOME/projects/lbryio/lbry-web-ui
$HOME/projects/lbryio/lbry-electron

Additionally, lbrynet needs to be installed along with pyinstaller, and you need everything to be able to build the lbry-web-ui

Build

run ./build.sh to create a lbry executable, bundle the front-end and move everything into the the electron repo

Run

electron electron

Package

To build a distributable package for OSX, run (on an OSX machine):

electron-packager --electron-version=1.4.14 --overwrite electron LBRY

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.