OONI Probe Desktop

This is the desktop implementation of OONI Probe.

Our two primary target platforms are:

• macOS
• Windows > 7 (we may also support older versions, but not as primary tagets)

Moreover, since it's written in electron, we plan on also supporting Linux desktop users.

For some background on the decision to use electron and the libraries we chose to use, see: Writing a modern cross-platform desktop app.

Setup

In order to start hacking on this, we assume you have node and yarn installed.

Then you can run:

yarn install

You will also need to have copied a compiled binary of probe-cli into the directory for the platform you plan to do development on.

You can download them by running:

yarn run probe-cli

Usage

To build and run a development mode electron instance run:

yarn run start

To update the translations:

• Save the strings from the canonical spreadsheet into data/lang-en.csv
• Run $ node scripts/update-translations.js
• Commit data/lang-en.csv, lang/en.json and renderer/static/translations.js into git

To create a signed packaged app you will need to have configured the following environment variables:

CSC_NAME=Hermes OONI Dev Key
APPLEIDPASS=XXXX
[email protected]

CSC_LINK=/path/to/secrets/file.p12
CSC_KEY_PASSWORD=XXXX

You can place them inside of .env file and they will be picked up by the following build commands.

To publish a release you should run:

yarn run publish

Important caveat be sure to not push the tag for the upcoming release until after the yarn run publish command has run successfully. If you do so users of the OONI Probe Desktop app will get an error when they start the app because the auto-update system will try to fetch the metadata associated with that tag.

You can also make a build, but not publish it by running the following commands:

yarn run pack:mac
yarn run pack:win
yarn run pack:linux