Electron

[John-LittleBearLabs]

From milestone 3.f:

Explore engagement beyond Chromium by integrating IPFS into other browsers like Electron and open-source browsers.

[John-LittleBearLabs]

A test integration was achieved. There were no conflicts between electron patches and existing chromium edits from ipfs-chromium, however most things in chromium_edits/<upstream version>/chrome have corresponding changes needed in the //electron component. I considered capturing those changes in a separate electron_edits, but it was less confusing instead to have a fork of the electron repo.

Reproducing would look something like:

• Follow electrion build instructions
• Pay special attention to the instruction you can use your own fork here: use https://github.com/little-bear-labs/ipfs-electron
• You can expect that build to fail
• Configure a ipfs-chromium build with CHROMIUM_SOURCE_TREE to your electron-imbued chromium source tree
• Run ipfs-chromium's build, with target build_electron

Fully supporting ipfs:// links in an electron app often involves changing the javascript code, too, however.

[John-LittleBearLabs]

More long-term approach in little-bear-labs/ipfs-electron#2
and
#107