custom menu, adds RPC recreation on page reload

app/index.js

@@ -14,19 +14,16 @@ app.on('ready', function ready () {
     // register sbot plugins
     sbot.use(require('phoenix-api'))
     
-    // setup blobs
+    // setup electron
     var blobs = require('./lib/blobs')(sbot, app.getPath('userDesktop'))
-
-    // register electron protocols
     require('protocol').registerProtocol('blob', blobs.protocol)
-
-    // open the web app
     var mainWindow = windows.open(
       'file://' + path.join(__dirname, '../node_modules/ssbplug-phoenix/home.html'),
       sbot,
       blobs,
       { width: 1000, height: 720 }
     )
+    require('./lib/menu')(mainWindow)
     // mainWindow.openDevTools()
 
     // setup menu

app/lib/menu.js

@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+var Menu = require('menu')
+
+module.exports = function (window) {
+  var template = [
+    {
+      label: 'Patchwork',
+      submenu: [
+        {
+          label: 'About Patchwork',
+          selector: 'orderFrontStandardAboutPanel:'
+        },
+        {
+          type: 'separator'
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Quit',
+          accelerator: 'Command+Q',
+          selector: 'terminate:'
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      label: 'Edit',
+      submenu: [
+        {
+          label: 'Undo',
+          accelerator: 'Command+Z',
+          selector: 'undo:'
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Redo',
+          accelerator: 'Shift+Command+Z',
+          selector: 'redo:'
+        },
+        {
+          type: 'separator'
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Cut',
+          accelerator: 'Command+X',
+          selector: 'cut:'
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Copy',
+          accelerator: 'Command+C',
+          selector: 'copy:'
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Paste',
+          accelerator: 'Command+V',
+          selector: 'paste:'
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Select All',
+          accelerator: 'Command+A',
+          selector: 'selectAll:'
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      label: 'View',
+      submenu: [
+        {
+          label: 'Reload',
+          accelerator: 'Command+R',
+          click: function() { 
+            window.resetRpc()
+            window.reload()
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Toggle DevTools',
+          accelerator: 'Alt+Command+I',
+          click: function() { 
+            window.toggleDevTools()
+          }
+        },
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      label: 'Window',
+      submenu: [
+        {
+          label: 'Minimize',
+          accelerator: 'Command+M',
+          selector: 'performMiniaturize:'
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Close',
+          accelerator: 'Command+W',
+          selector: 'performClose:'
+        },
+        {
+          type: 'separator'
+        },
+        {
+          label: 'Bring All to Front',
+          selector: 'arrangeInFront:'
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      label: 'Help',
+      submenu: []
+    }
+  ]
+
+  menu = Menu.buildFromTemplate(template)
+  Menu.setApplicationMenu(menu)
+}

app/lib/muxrpc-ipc.js

@@ -12,14 +12,17 @@ module.exports = function (window, sbot, params) {
       api[k] = sbot[k] // copy over the plugin APIs
   }
 
+
+  // add rpc APIs to window
+  window.createRpc = function () {
     // create rpc object
-  var rpc = muxrpc(null, sbot.manifest, serialize)(api)
+    var rpc = window.rpc = muxrpc(null, sbot.manifest, serialize)(api)
     rpc.authorized = { id: sbot.feed.id, role: 'master' }
     rpc.permissions({allow: null, deny: null})
     function serialize (stream) { return stream }
 
-  // setup rpc stream over ipc
-  var rpcStream = rpc.createStream()
+    // start the stream
+    window.rpcStream = rpc.createStream()
     var ipcPush = pushable()
     ipc.on('muxrpc-ssb', function (e, msg) {
       if (e.sender == window.webContents) {
@@ -30,7 +33,7 @@ module.exports = function (window, sbot, params) {
         ipcPush.push(msg)
       }
     })
-  pull(ipcPush, rpcStream, pull.drain(
+    pull(ipcPush, window.rpcStream, pull.drain(
       function (msg) { 
         if (msg.value && Buffer.isBuffer(msg.value)) {
           // convert buffers to base64
@@ -41,6 +44,16 @@ module.exports = function (window, sbot, params) {
       },
       function (err) { if (err) { console.error(err) } }
     ))
+  }
+  window.resetRpc = function () {
+    console.log('close rpc')
+    window.rpcStream.source(true)
+    window.rpc.close()
+    window.createRpc()
+  }
+
+  // setup default stream
+  window.createRpc()
 
   // setup helper messages
   ipc.on('fetch-manifest', function(e) {