A distributed, peer-to-peer chat application built on IPFS

Desktop App for Orbit.

Currently works in OSX and Linux. We're working on Windows support.

NOTE! Orbit is still more or less experimental. It means Orbit is currently not secure, APIs will change and builds can break over the coming months. If you come across problems, it would help greatly to open issues so that we can fix them as quickly as possible.*

Built with:

• orbit-web - UI for the application which can be used as fully working Orbit client in the browser.
• orbit-core - Core Orbit communication library.
• js-ipfs - IPFS, a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.
• electron - Electron

See also:

• orbit-textui - Terminal client prototype for Orbit.
• orbit-db - Serverless, p2p database that orbit-core uses to store its data.
• IPFS - IPFS

Orbit binaries will soon be available from dist.ipfs.io. Meanwhile, you'll have to build the application from the source code.

• Node.js v6.x.x
• npm v3.x.x
• g++, gcc, make, python 2

NOTE: Orbit requires a newer version of gcc to compile crypto libraries. gcc 6.2.1 has been tested successfully, gcc 4.9.2 is known to fail at runtime.

Standard gcc versions for various distros are listed below: Arch Linux gcc 6.2.1 Debian Stretch gcc 6.2.1 Debian Jessie gcc 4.9 RHEL7 gcc 4.8 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS gcc 5.3+ OSX Uses CLANG, not gcc. Verification needed.

git clone https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-electron.git
cd orbit-electron/

make start

or

npm install
npm start

NOTE! Before running this command, make sure you have orbit-web development server running

npm run dev

make build

or

npm run build

This will create binaries for OSX and Linux in bin/

make build
make dist

This will create bin/dist/orbit_master_darwin-amd64.tar.gz and bin/dist/orbit_master_linux-amd64.tar.gz and add them to IPFS.

Note: electron names the folders after the arch, and uses the x64 nomenclature instead of amd64. They are the same thing; we create tarballs with amd64 to match the golang distributions on ipfs/distributions.

We would be happy to accept PRs! If you want to work on something, it'd be good to talk beforehand to make sure nobody else is working on it. You can reach us on IRC #ipfs on Freenode, or in the comments of the issues section.

A good place to start are the issues labelled "help wanted" or the project's status board.

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