Signal nw.js

nw.js provides for easily running Chrome applications in it's native app containers (which ship Node and all application files as a standard platform native application.

Building a Signal Desktop packaged application

First you need to install the NW builder:

npm install -g nw-builder

There's a shell script called package.sh which will prepare this repo to produce a packaged app. So just do:

./package.sh

and then you should be able to execute

nwbuild -p Linux64 .

to build a package!

Manually running signal in nw.js

If you want to do this yourself you can do the following (after installing nw.js:

git clone git@github.com:WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop.git
cd Signal-Desktop
npm install
grunt
nw ./dist

and that's it!