This is a graphical browser for the decentralized content marketplace provided by the LBRY protocol. It is essentially the lbry daemon bundled with a UI using Electron.
We provide installers for Windows, macOS, and Debian-based Linux.
| Windows | macOS | Linux | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latest Stable Release | Download | Download | Download |
| Latest Prerelease | Download | Download | Download |
Our releases page also contains the latest release, pre-releases, and past builds.
To install from source or make changes to the application, continue reading below.
- Install npm and node (v6 and above required, use nvm if having trouble)
- Install keytar and libsecret (see keytar repository )
- Install yarn by running: npm install -g yarn (may require elevated permissions)
- Check out this repo.
- Set up a Python virtual environment, or live on the wild side.
- Run
./build.sh. This builds the UI assets and puts them intoapp/dist. It also downloads lbry daemon.
Run ./node_modules/.bin/electron app
cd ui./watch.sh
This will set up a monitor that will automatically compile any changes to JS or CSS folders inside of the ui folder. This allows you to make changes and see them immediately by reloading the app.
We use electron-builder to create distributable packages, which is run by calling:
node_modules/.bin/build -p never
This project has currently only been worked on in Linux and macOS. If you are on Windows, you can checkout out the build steps in appveyor.yml and probably figure out something from there.
If you want to help translating the lbry-app, you can copy the en.json file in /app/locales and modify the values while leaving the keys as their original English strings. An example for this would be: "Skip": "Überspringen", Translations should automatically show up in options.