General

This project is a desktop application developed in context of the Cryptography and Securty TUM course. The application is meant to:

• import Nesus .audit policy files (Which provide OS security audit)
• Write a custom parser for .audit files and import it as a custom data structure
• Run OS audits based on imported files
• Add ability to enforce settings failed audit tests.

Personal

I use this project as an opportunity to deepen my understanding of Angular. Here I experiment with theming best practices, build custom UI library, learn how to make a better separation of logic and get more comfortable with rxjs and angular internals.

Implementation

The project is based on Angular 10 and Electron 9 (Typescript + SASS + Hot Reload) Base repo, which allows Angular to run as a desktop application

Currently runs with:

• Angular v10.0.14
• Electron v9.3.0
• Electron Builder v22.8.0

/!\ Hot reload only pertains to the renderer process. The main electron process is not able to be hot reloaded, only restarted.

/!\ Angular 10.x CLI needs Node 10.13 or later to work correctly.

To build for development

• in a terminal window -> npm start The command will open an electron window and browser window on localhost:4200 (though only the electron window has access to OS files)

Included Commands

Command	Description
npm run ng:serve	Execute the app in the browser
npm run build	Build the app. Built files are in the /dist folder.
npm run build:prod	Build the app with Angular aot. Built files are in the /dist folder.

E2E Testing

E2E Test scripts can be found in e2e folder.

Command	Description
npm run e2e	Execute end to end tests

Note: To make it work behind a proxy, you can add this proxy exception in your terminal
export {no_proxy,NO_PROXY}="127.0.0.1,localhost"