Name: mist
Owner: ethereum
Description: Mist. Browse and use Šapps on the Ethereum network.
Created: 2015-06-10 14:09:06.0
Updated: 2018-01-17 21:55:43.0
Pushed: 2018-01-17 18:40:32.0
Homepage: http://ethereum.org
Size: 404629
Language: JavaScript
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The Mist browser is the tool of choice to browse and use Šapps.
For the Mist API see the MISTAPI.md.
Please note that this repository is the Electron host for the Meteor based wallet dapp whose repository is located here: https://github.com/ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet.
In order to get help regarding Mist or Ethereum Wallet, please follow:
Contributions via Pull Requests are so welcome. You can see where to help looking for issues with the Enhancement or Bug labels. We can help guiding you towards the solution.
You can also help by responding to issues. Sign up on CodeTriage and it'll send you gentle notifications with a configurable frequency. It is a nice way to help while learning.
If you want to install the app from a pre-built version on the release page, you can simply run the executeable after download.
For updating simply download the new version and copy it over the old one (keep a backup of the old one if you want to be sure).
In order to install from .zip files, please install libgconf2-4 first:
get install libgconf2-4
The data folder for Mist is stored in other places:
%APPDATA%\Mist~/Library/Application\ Support/Mist~/.config/MistFor development, a Meteor server will need to be started to assist with live reload and CSS injection.
Once a Mist version is released the Meteor frontend part is bundled using the meteor-build-client npm package to create pure static files.
To run mist in development you need:
v7.x (use the prefered installation method for your OS)v1.7.9 cross platform desktop app frameworkInstall the latter ones via:
$ curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh
$ curl -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash
$ yarn global add electron@1.7.9
$ yarn global add gulp
Now you're ready to initialise Mist for development:
$ git clone https://github.com/ethereum/mist.git
$ cd mist
$ yarn
To update Mist in the future, run:
$ cd mist
$ git pull
$ yarn
For development we start the interface with a Meteor server for autoreload etc. Start the interface in a separate terminal window:
$ cd mist/interface && meteor --no-release-check
In the original window you can then start Mist with:
$ cd mist
$ yarn dev:electron
NOTE: client-binaries (e.g. geth) specified in clientBinaries.json will be checked during every startup and downloaded if out-of-date, binaries are stored in the config folder
NOTE: use --help to display available options, e.g. --loglevel debug (or trace) for verbose output
Start the wallet app for development, in a separate terminal window:
$ cd mist/interface && meteor --no-release-check
// and in another terminal
$ cd my/path/meteor-dapp-wallet/app && meteor --port 3050
In the original window you can then start Mist using wallet mode:
$ cd mist
$ yarn dev:electron --mode wallet
This is useful if you have a node running on another machine, though note that it's less secure than using the default IPC method.
rn dev:electron --rpc http://localhost:8545
You can pass command-line options directly to Geth by prefixing them with --node- in
the command-line invocation:
rn dev:electron --mode mist --node-rpcport 19343 --node-networkid 2
The --rpc Mist option is a special case. If you set this to an IPC socket file
path then the --ipcpath option automatically gets set, i.e.:
rn dev:electron --rpc /my/geth.ipc
…is the same as doing…
rn dev:electron --rpc /my/geth.ipc --node-ipcpath /my/geth.ipc
See this guide to quickly set up a local private network on your computer: https://gist.github.com/evertonfraga/9d65a9f3ea399ac138b3e40641accf23
To run a private network you will need to set the IPC path, network id and data folder:
rn dev:electron --rpc ~/Library/Ethereum/geth.ipc --node-networkid 1234 --node-datadir ~/Library/Ethereum/privatenet
NOTE: since ipcpath is also a Mist option you do not need to also include a
--node-ipcpath option.
You can also launch geth separately with the same options prior starting
Mist.
Our build system relies on gulp and electron-builder.
meteor-build-client bundles the meteor-based interface. Install it via:
$ npm install -g meteor-build-client
Furthermore cross-platform builds require additional electron-builder dependencies. On macOS those are:
// windows deps
$ brew install wine --without-x11 mono makensis
// linux deps
$ brew install gnu-tar libicns graphicsmagick xz
To generate the binaries for Mist run:
$ gulp
To generate the Ethereum Wallet (this will pack the one Šapp from https://github.com/ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet):
$ gulp --wallet
The generated binaries will be under dist_mist/release or dist_wallet/release.
To build binaries for specific platforms (default: all available) use the following flags:
// on mac
$ gulp --win --linux --mac
// on linux
$ gulp --win --linux
// on win
$ gulp --win
With the walletSource you can specify the Wallet branch to use, default is master:
$ gulp --wallet --walletSource develop
Options are:
masterdeveloplocal Will try to build the wallet from [mist/]../meteor-dapp-wallet/appNote: applicable only when combined with --wallet
When building a binary, you can optionally skip some tasks ? generally for testing purposes.
$ gulp –mac –skipTasks=bundling-interface,release-dist
Spits out the MD5 checksums of distributables.
It expects installer/zip files to be in the generated folders e.g. dist_mist/release
$ gulp checksums [--wallet]
Tests are ran using Spectron, a webdriver.io runner built for Electron.
First make sure to build Mist with:
$ gulp
Then run the tests:
$ gulp test
Note: Integration tests are not yet supported on Windows.