duality-solutions / pShare

(PrivateShare)

pShare

Software Objectives:

• Privately and securely share data with friends, family, and business associates.
• Integrated with the operating system's file explorer.
• Run as a distributed system without centralized adminstrators and prying eyes monitoring your activity and data.

Prerequisite

• npm - Strongly suggest using NVM outside of containers to manage multiple node versions
• Node v8.12.0+
• yarn v1.16.0+

Development

# install any new dependencies
yarn install

# run application in development mode
yarn dev

Building

# compile source code and create webpack output
yarn compile

# `yarn compile` & create build with electron-builder
yarn dist

# `yarn compile` & create linux build with electron-builder on any OS
yarn dist-linux

# `yarn compile` & create unpacked build with electron-builder
yarn dist:dir

Bundling pShare's Dynamicd

To distribute pShare with a specific Dynamicd version, you must place the binaries in the specific OS folder and then build as described above.

   src/
   └── static/
       └── dynamicd
           ├── darwin
           |   └── dynamicd (mac binary)
           |   └── dynamic-cli (mac binary)
           ├── linux
           |   └── dynamicd (linux binary)
           |   └── dynamic-cli (linux binary)
           └── win32
               └── dynamicd (windows binary)
               └── dynamic-cli (windows binary)

Platform examples:

# Windows installer (.exe)
yarn dist --win
# Ubuntu package (Debian package)
yarn dist --linux
# MacOS Disk Image (DMG)
yarn dist --mac --x64

Building pShare Dynamicd

New binaries can be created by following https://github.com/HiddenField/dynamic-vagrant/blob/master/docker.md#extracting-the-binary-build-artefacts-from-the-docker-image

Installing and Running Electron App on Linux

• Run a distribution build as mentioned above
• Use your preferred distributable from within the dist folder. Currently available: deb, tar.gz, and AppImage. We test with AppImage
• Copy pshare-0.X.X-x86_64.AppImage onto your system (Currently tested on Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop)
• Run the pShare electron app by double clicking on the AppImage file - App should launch

Configuring pShare on Linux

• Config is stored in ~/.pshare/.dynamic/dynamic.conf
• Data folder is located at - ~/.pshare/.dynamic

Stopping pShare

• Quiting the pShare Electron App will also terminate the bundled pShare Dynamicd daemon.

Application architecture

Information about the architecture of the application can be found in this document

Talking to an installed pShare's instance of dynamicd

Linux .deb-based installation from bash

In the terminal, it is possible to make an alias dyncli to point to the running dynamicd:

$ alias dyncli='/opt/pShare/resources/static/dynamicd/linux/dynamic-cli "-conf=$HOME/.pshare/.dynamic/dynamic.conf" "-datadir=$HOME/.pshare/.dynamic"'

then we can use it to issue RPC commands against the running dynamicd as follows:

$ dyncli syncstatus

Windows-based installation from cmd

In windows, we can use the following:

> "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\pshare\resources\static\dynamicd\win32\dynamic-cli.exe" "-conf=%USERPROFILE%\.pshare\.dynamic\dynamic.conf" "-datadir=%USERPROFILE%\.pshare\.dynamic" syncstatus

to do the same thing. No alias command to ease usage, unfortunately.

License

See LICENSE.md file for copying and use information.