This is a fork of the WhatsApp desktop client, based on the official WhatsApp web app. Build with Electron.
This is NOT an official product. This project does not attempt to reverse engineer the WhatsApp API or attempt to reimplement any part of the WhatsApp client. Any communication between the user and WhatsApp servers is handled by official WhatsApp Web itself; this is just a native wrapper for WhatsApp Web, like a browser.
Original version of WhatsApp Desktop was written by @bcalik there: https://github.com/bcalik/Whatsapp-Desktop
- Cross platform (OSX, Windows x64, Linux x64 and ARM v7l)
- Native notifications
- System tray icon
- Open links in browser
- Badge with the number of notifications in the dock/taskbar
- Dock icon bounces when a new message is received
- Focus on contact search input via CMD+F (WIN+F)
- Phone info window (s/w versions, battery status, etc)
- Auto-launch on login
- Start minimized to tray icon
- Logging system (log to console and userData/log.log)
- Apply custom CSS stylesheet
- Auto-hide menu bar (Windows, Linux)
- Disabling GPU rendering (useful when dealing with bugged video drivers)
- A couple of things can be configured:
- Toggle avatar visibility
- Toggle preview of the messages visibility
- Set the size for the media thumbs
- Proxy settings connect to WhatsApp web
--debug-log Switch file's log level to "debug" (default: "warn")
sudo apt-get remove cmdtest yarn
sudo npm install yarn -g
To build from the source, run the following commands:
yarn install --ignore-engines
yarn run build:platform
where build:platform can be build:linux if you want to build for Linux (use build:linux32 for 32-bit), build:osx for OSX only, build:win for Windows only, or simply build to build for all platforms.
You'll find artifacts into dist/ directory.
If you're a developer, you may want to use directly yarn run dev (in project root) instead of compiling the code each time. Please note that autostart feature will not work in this mode.