Overt
_{open app store}

Explore, install, and manage your favourite software with a free and open app store for macOS.

Overt doesn't:

• Process payments
• Restrict app features
• Remove apps arbitrarily

Overt does:

• Offer 3,000+ apps by default
• Support external catalogs
• 1-click install/update/uninstall

About • Install

Bugs and feature requests

If you encounter a bug or would like to request a feature, please check the issues page for a similar report, or open a new issue if you can't find one. Also, please understand that some feature requests may be declined or put on the backburner.

Development

Tech

• Electron and electron-forge
• Lit
• TypeScript
• Bootswatch
• better-sqlite3
• electron-store
• Other wonderful libraries

Setup

To develop Overt, use Visual Studio Code (available on Overt) with the following extensions:

• Prettier - Code formatter — you should set this up to run on file save for JS, TS, and HTML
• Inline HTML — highlights and allows Prettier to format Lit's html and css template literals
• vscode-sql-template-literal — highlights sql template literals

Clone this repository and run npm run install-for-arm64 or npm run install-for-x86_64 to install packages.

Use npm start to build and run the app in dev/debug mode. Hot reload doesn't work correctly at the moment, so you should quit the app and re-run npm start when you make changes.

Build a release version

npm run make-for-arm64
# or
npm run make-for-x86_64

open out/

Package an official release

# Bump the appropriate version number (this creates a Git commit)
npm run bump-{major,minor,patch}

# Build release versions for both arm64 and x86_64, and update the cask definition
# (this command will fail and print a help message without certain env vars set)
npm run distribute-macos