Signal Muon
Signal Desktop built on top of Muon so you can run it without Google Chrome.
THIS IS NOT PRODUCTION READY. Use at your own risk. I am in no way affiliated with WhisperSystems.
Installing
Prerequisites
You must have git, node 7.x, and either npm or Yarn installed. Then:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/diracdeltas/signal-muon.git
cd signal-muon
npm install
Building
With npm:
npm run build
With Yarn:
yarn run build
Then open the app in the build directory logged in the console. Ex: open Signal-darwin-x64/Signal.app/ on MacOS.
Updating
First fetch changes:
git pull origin master
git submodule update --recursive
If you are updating by a MAJOR or MINOR version number (ex: 0.0.3 to 0.1.0, or 0.1.0 to 1.0.0), run the following step to get an updated version of chromium. If you are updating by a PATCH version (ex: 0.0.2 to 0.0.3), skip the following step.
npm run muon-update
Then re-build the package.
Running in development mode
To run in development mode with the Signal staging server (no need to pair
with a mobile device), do npm/yarn start instead of npm/yarn run build.
Caveats
In development mode, you can only message accounts that are registered on the Signal staging server, so you will probably be very lonely unless you want to talk to other Signal contributors. If you want someone to talk to, my test number is (oldest telephone area code in San Francisco) + (decimal char code of capital Epsilon) + (the 513th prime).
If you want to link Signal-Muon to your mobile device so that you can talk to your contacts, you need to do a build.