Rebel Browser Remote New Tab Page

The default New Tab Page used by the Rebel browser.

Setup

git clone https://github.com/RebelBrowser/remote_ntp.git
cd remote_ntp
npm install

Running

npm start

This will open a new tab in your browser to http://localhost:3000. However, the page won't render much, if anything at all. This is because the application depends on APIs embedded by the browser, which are not embedded by default.

To point the browser at your running localhost instance, run the browser with these command lines (shown here for macOS):

./out/Release/Rebel.app/Contents/MacOS/Rebel --remote-ntp-url=http://localhost:3000/rebel_ntp/index.html

Note: You do not need to re-run npm start each time you make a change to the source code. Anytime you save a file, npm will automatically rebuild the site and refresh any active open sessions.

Deploying

To deploy to browser.viasat.com/rebel_ntp_dev:

./deploy.py -t dev

To deploy to browser.viasat.com/rebel_ntp:

./deploy.py -t prod

To create a local build of the NTP to be embedded into the browser at compile time (accessed at chrome://remote-ntp-offline):

./deploy.py -t local