Mainframe OS

A platform for easily building and running distributed, unstoppable apps.

Overview

This repository is a desktop application based on Electron, producing the Mainframe OS binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Other repositories contain specific parts of logic:

• mainframe-contracts: Ethereum smart contracts for contacts discovery
• mainframe-eth: custom Ethereum client used by Mainframe OS
• mainframe-sdk: Mainframe SDK used by apps to interact with Mainframe OS

Project Status

This project is in alpha, lots of breaking changes are to be expected between releases. It is using libraries and services that are themselves still in early stages of development. The cryptography and overall security have not been audited, no guarantees should be expected from this project at this stage.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node v10+
• Yarn v1.13+
• git

Platform-specific dependencies

Linux

sudo apt install -y build-essential libsecret-1-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev

Windows

npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

Setup

yarn install # install dependencies
yarn run deps:build # rebuild native dependencies for Electron

Development

Running the code

yarn run dev

Building Mainframe apps

Information and guides for building Mainframe apps can be found in our developer docs.

License

MIT.
See LICENSE file.