Patchwork

Patchwork is a decentralized sharing app. It was built for friends of the SSB project, to test basic functions. We use it as a test-bed for features, and for our own daily messaging.

Because SSB is a research project, you'll need to contact an SSB team member (in #scuttlebutt on Freenode) to get onto the network! That's our informal barrier to entry right now, since we're not prepared for lots of users yet.

Patchwork embeds Scuttlebot, so if you're running Patchwork, you don't need to run another scuttlebot server.

Running Patchwork

Current install steps are:

# ubuntu
apt-get install automake libtool
# osx
brew install automake libtool

Also, you'll need to use iojs@2. The easiest way to get this is nvm.

nvm install iojs-v2.5.0

Then, install the software:

git clone https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork.git
cd patchwork
npm install
npm start

And then join a pub server.

Development & App-building :

Dependencies

# Linux dependencies
add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa -y
apt-get update
apt-get install nsis wine

# OSX dependencies
brew install makensis wine

npm install -d
npm run build
npm run pack

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Relevant docs:

• https://github.com/maxogden/electron-packager
• https://github.com/loopline-systems/electron-builder
• https://github.com/atom/electron/tree/master/docs