Nuestr: Nostr on the desktop (written in Clojure)

Some notes

• It's still early days for Nuestr. So expect bugs (and please report them if you bump into any).

• At the moment Nuestr doesn't have the option to follow other accounts in the standard Nostr way (but note the option in the Views tab to follow authors for a specific view). So it's probably best to create your identity (public key and/or secret key) and build your contact list (follow list) on another client for now.

• All Nuestr data is kept in the ~/.nostr-desk directory. If, for some reason, you want to start Nuestr complete from scratch again, you can just delete this directory.

• There's a Telegram group for Nuestr at https://t.me/nuestr_clj

• You can follow the main developer (aasaa) on Nostr: npub1aasaanckwe7489s3g7x000yfz8lndzru2cgdszv583tevgznaaysm2tjjh

Prerequisites

• You need to have Clojure installed. See https://ericnormand.me/guide/how-to-install-clojure or https://clojure.org/guides/install_clojure

• A common way of installing Clojure is:

$ brew install clojure/tools/clojure

• You will need to have some java/jdk, say v. 17, installed if you don't have one.

• You may also need to install rlwrap.

How to run

$ make run

Alternatively, if you have Leiningen (https://leiningen.org) installed, you can do:

$ lein run

MacOs Darwin arm64 build

To build the secp256k1 native lib, which is not currently available in central repos, recursive clone https://github.com/ACINQ/secp256k1-kmp and run

$ TARGET=darwin ./native/build.sh
$ TARGET=darwin ./jni/jvm/build.sh

This will create a dylib file which you can patch into a jar in the local maven repo, for example:

$ mkdir -p ./fr/acinq/secp256k1/jni/native/darwin-aarch64
$ cp ./jni/jvm/build/darwin/libsecp256k1-jni.dylib fr/acinq/secp256k1/jni/native/darwin-aarch64
$ jar uf ~/.m2/repository/fr/acinq/secp256k1/secp256k1-kmp-jni-jvm-darwin/0.7.1/secp256k1-kmp-jni-jvm-darwin-0.7.1.jar fr

Original TODO notes by Aaron

(I mostly use Github issues for this now.)

• seen-on relays w/ popup

  • popup queries db (w/ cache) for seen-on?

• manage followers ux

• design scheme for efficient load of missing:xx messages

  • ie messages from contacts you don't follow

• do not re-query everything when re-connecting to a relay

  • bonus: limit requery when contact lists change

• limit timelines by cardinality

  • with "load more" support

• configure/prune logs

  • capture logs in ui admin console

• more nips

• more pretty

  • themes?

• win/mac/linux installables

• keyboard ux

  • ctrl-enter publish/reply
  • esc cancel publish/reply (lose focus)
  • j/k navigate posts

• normy features

  • traditional-like 'signup' ux
  • what else

• metadata-cache a bit flawed

  • design more reactive approach