humbletim / agregore-browser

A minimal browser for the distributed web

Agregore Browser

A minimal web browser for the distributed web

Overview from SpeakeasyJS

Watch the intro video from Dat Conference

Intro to IPFS interface from IPFS meetup

5 minute overview from Dweb meetup

Download the installer

Discord

Goals

• Enable people to make and use local first apps using the web
• Be minimal (fewer built-in features, leave more to the OS)
• Be open to anything p2p / decentralized / local-first
• Rely on web extensions for extra functionality
• Work with mesh networks / Bluetooth Low Energy networks

Features

Keyboard Shortcuts

(Ctrl means Command or Control)

Shortcut	Does	Is configurable
Alt	Show Menu Bar	-
Ctrl+N	New Window	+
F11	Fullscreen	-
Ctrl+M	Minimize	-
Ctrl+W	Close	-
Ctrl+Shift+I	Open Devtools	+
Ctrl+]	Navigate Forward	+
Ctrl+[	Navigate Backward	+
Ctrl+L	Focus URL Bar	+
Ctrl+F	Find in page	-
Ctrl+R	Reload	+
Ctrl+Shift+R	Hard Reload	+
	Learn More	+
	Open Extensions Folder	+
Ctrl+.	Edit Config File	+

Other features

• Open links in new windows (right click on element)
• Find text on the page (ctrl+f to bring into focus, esc to hide)
• Autocomplete URLs from history (type in the URL bar, up/down to navigate, right to autocomplete)
• Persist open windows when quitting
• Web Extension support
• Save files from pages (any protocol, right click it)
• Set as default browser (click Set As Default in the menu bar (ALT))

Docs

Check out the documentation.

Contributing

Feel free to open a Github issue if you wish to tackle one of the items on the roadmap, or message @RangerMauve directly on whatever platform you can find them on.

This project uses the StandardJS code style. Please format your code with standard --fix or run npm run lint.

To build from source do the following:

• Set up node.js, git, and yarn
• Clone the repo
• Pull your clone
• Load submodules with git submodule update --init --recursive
• Run yarn or npm install
• Run yarn start or npm start
• After coding, when ready to submit, run standard --fix or npm run lint
• Push to your clone
• Submit a pull request

Other notes:

• To debug extensions, run yarn debug
• If you're interested in a CLI for these protocols, check out curld cURL for Distributed Web. That project supports the same protocols as Agregore, but in a terminal way.