millimeter

A browser experiment shipped with a built-in Gun DB relay server

I built it in a few hours on a lazy Saturday as a proof of concept, but it has a lot of potential. For example, if it became popular enough, and with NAT hole punching, perhaps by leveraging webtorrent, Millimeter users could be relay peers for a globally connected Gun swarm.

If you don't know what Gun is, see http://gun.eco. In short, it is an open source local-first decentralized graph database.

Status

This is currently a work in progress.

• The current push is not working correctly. I am reworking how BrowserWindow and BrowserView renders content with a focus on electron's ipc. This version should be the working version, but is woefully insecure, using the gun/examples folder from directly inside node-modules.

Features

• Search or visit a URL from the address bar

Install

1. Clone this repo
2. > npm install
3. > npm start
4. Browse to http://localhost:30210/gun in Millimeter and another browser and start typing. Millimeter is relaying the data between itself and the other browser!

Much TODO

• Add a bittorrent-tracker server
• Back/Forward buttons
• History
• Bookmarks
• Tabs
• Settings
• Automatic upgrades