Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network

TODO: short headline.

TODO: short intro for non-tech. what is this repo about.

TODO: optional clarification for techs, if the short intro is not enough to understand what is this repo about.

Install

TODO

Getting Started

See Modules if you don't want to dive into the code

Troubleshooting

(please use issues)

Development

If you want to quickly try native mobile IPFS without writing any go, make an HTML module

Architecture

TODO: Explain modules architecture

Modules

Modules are automatically added to the home tool list in the app

They allow you to run custom Go or JavaScript and programatically access a Gomobile-IPFS backed IPFS shell on mobile very quickly

You don't need to know JavaScript to create or run a Go module and you don't need to know Go to create or run a JavaScript module

HTML

HTML modules in a nutshell:

• Living at rn/html-mods/
• Statically served at the root of a Go http.FileServer started automatically by the Labs bridge
• Accessed with a react-native-webview pointed at the embedded static server (the rn/src/screens/HTMLModule.tsx screen)
• If the build of an HTML module fails, it will be skipped and building the app will continue

Create a new Labs HTML module by running

cd rn
make create-module

And choosing one of bare, git or react

It will ask you a few questions and create the module boilerplate, every step is logged so you can understand what is going on

If you choose the react preset, you can use the dev-server from mobile with the Browser Labs tool

Or:

• Create a directory at rn/html-mods/<your-module-name>
• Add a Makefile at rn/html-mods/<your-module-name>/Makefile with the first rule creating:
  • The rn/html-mods.bundle/<your-module-name>/index.html root site file
  • The rn/html-mods.bundle/<your-module-name>/info.json file containing a JSON representation of the blmod.ModuleInfo type

Go

Go modules in a nutshell:

• Living at go/mod/
• Need to be registered in go/bind/labs/modules.go which can be done automatically by running make generate
• Accessed with a generic UI that allows to run them, cancel runs and view their output (the rn/src/screens/GoModule.tsx screen)
• If the build of a registered Go module fails, it will abort building the app

Create a new Labs Go module by running

cd rn
make create-module

And choosing go as preset

Or:

• Create a Go module at go/mod/<your-module-name>
• Implement the berty.tech/labs/go/pkg/blmod.Module interface
• Register the module in go/bind/labs/modules.go

To develop a Go module faster, you can:

• go run ./go/cmd/daemon to spawn a CLI Labs instance
• go run ./go/cmd/client to access the modules with a CLI

Testing

TODO

Contributing

If you want to help out, please see CONTRIBUTING.md.

This repository falls under the Berty Code of Conduct.

You can contact us on the #dev-💻 channel on discord.

License

Dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and MIT terms.

SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

See the COPYRIGHT file for more details.