This is the reference wallet of BitShares Blockchain which connects to BitShares Blockchain nodes (bitshares-core).
This reference wallet is a browser based wallet, which means your keys are stored locally in your browser and never leaves it while using the wallet. You should never expose your keys to anyone as transactions are signed locally before transmitting them to a node.
Building BitShares-UI browser based reference wallet depends on node version 10.
On Ubuntu or OSX, the easiest way to install node is to use Node Version Manager.
To install nvm for Ubuntu or OSX, use following commands in terminal using a non-root user:
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.30.2/install.sh | bash
nvm install v10
nvm use v10
Once you have node installed, clone the repo using the following commands using a non-root user:
git clone https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-ui.git
cd bitshares-ui
Before launching the GUI you will need to install the npm packages using a non-root user:
npm install
The dev server uses Express in combination with Webpack.
Once all the packages have been installed you can start the development server by running:
npm start
Once the compilation is done the GUI will be available in your browser at: localhost:8080 or 127.0.0.1:8080. Hot Reloading is enabled so the browser will live update as you edit the source files.
By default bitshares-ui connects to the live BitShares network, but it's very easy to switch it to the testnet run by Xeroc. To do so, open the UI in a browser, go to Settings, then under Access, select the Public Testnet Server in the dropdown menu. You should also change the faucet if you need to create an account, the testnet faucet address is https://testnet.bitshares.eu.
The UI will reload and connect to the testnet, where you can use the faucet to create an account and receive an initial sum of test BTS.
If you'd like to host your own wallet somewhere, you should create a production build and host it using NGINX or Apache. In order to create a prod bundle, simply run the following command:
npm run build
This will create a bundle in the ./build/dist folder that can be hosted with the web server of your choice.
We use Electron to provide installable wallets, available for Windows, OSX and Linux Debian platforms such as Ubuntu. First, make sure your local python version is 2.7.x, as a dependency requires this.
On Linux you will need to install the following packages to handle icon generation:
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y icnsutils graphicsmagick xz-utils
For building, each architecture has it's own script that you can use to build your native binary:
Linux
npm run package-deb
Windows
npm run package-win
Mac
npm run package-mac
This will compile the UI with some special modifications for use with Electron, generate installable binaries with Electron and copy the result to the root build/binaries folder.
Clone this repository, run docker-compose up and visit localhost:8080
See CONTRIBUTING.md
This repository has a Code of Conduct that should be followed by everyone. Please read CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
Please keep comments constructive and clean
The BitShares UI is integrated with BrowserStack (https://www.browserstack.com) to allow manual compatibility testing across devices and browser versions. In the future we will switch to a automated Selenium testing framework.
Development is processed through two week milestones. There are three branches that forms the current release process.
All PRs should be pushed to the develop branch. At the end of each milestone this branch is pushed to staging.
New commits are automatically deployed to this branch and published for review.
Available for browsing on https://develop.bitshares.org
At the end of each milestone, develop branch is pushed to staging and forms the Release Candidate. The date of the RC forms the name, ie. 190214-RC*.
Application breaking issues and bugs should be submitted to the issue tracker and PRs should be pushed to staging.
Available for browsing on https://staging.bitshares.org
When all issues to the current RC are fixed, staging branch is released to the stable master branch.
Available for browsing on https://wallet.bitshares.org which is the official reference wallet for Bitshares.