Turtl desktop

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This is the desktop app wrapper around the Turtl core. It provides a native experience for Windows, Linux, and OSx allowing local packaging of Turtl for desktop platforms.

Setup

Let's assume you have Node.js/NPM install already. Make sure you have NWJS installed on your machine and in your PATH. Also the rsync utility is used throughout the Turtl build processes, so please make sure you have it installed.

mkdir turtl
cd turtl/
git clone https://github.com/turtl/js
# make sure you set up core-rs based on its own setup: https://github.com/turtl/core-rs
git clone https://github.com/turtl/core-rs
git clone https://github.com/turtl/desktop
cd js/
npm install
cd ../desktop/
npm install
npm install -g electron-rebuild
electron-rebuild -e node_modules/electron

NOTE (mostly to self): in windows, run electron-rebuild in cmd, not in msys2/cygwin. Something with paths, npm, etc etc etc. Who the hell knows.

So we grab our Turtl js project's source and the mobile source as siblings (with the name "js" preserved...renaming js to something else will break the build).

Building

There are a few targets, but the most interesting is

make run

Which runs the build and opens nwjs with Turtl loaded.