Daniel Edgecumbe [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2019-11-23 📝 Original message:You may find my ...
📅 Original date posted:2019-11-23
📝 Original message:You may find my (incomplete) front-end of interest:
https://bitcoin.electronrelocation.com
The live demo is backed by a -disablewallet node, but it was able to accept payments and send them via QR codes before I stopped development.
The source is available via AGPLv3.
https://git.esotericnonsense.com/pub/bitcoin-top.git
I am unable to continue development due to time constraints.
Daniel Edgecumbe | esotericnonsense
email at esotericnonsense.com | https://esotericnonsense.com
On Sat, Nov 23, 2019, at 17:49, Oscar Lafarga via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hi MK,
>
> I very much share your interests and curiosities here and actually
> don't have an answer on whether it's been tried before.
>
> One of the few things I am imagining is that given the security-focused
> nature of the Bitcoin Core software, any vulnerabilities in the way NPM
> handles the dependencies of the Electron app would be a very high
> priority (see
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/)
>
> In NodeJS-land, my sense is that there is a "move fast and break
> things" mentality that may have seeped into some practices that may be
> considered standard. I have seen some recent developments over the past
> few years to address these kinds of issues such as npm-audit (as of
> Node v6+) but I would recommend doing some thorough research on this
> front to make sure there is a secure dependency management solution in
> place for such a GUI.
>
> Another comment I'd make is that if we consider the GUI as a layer that
> is separate from the protocol layer, this mailing list may not be the
> best place to fully discuss this. However I think if anyone here who
> has been around longer can contribute info on past attempts at this, it
> could be quite productive. This could technically exist as an
> independent client, but I guess there's a conversation on whether this
> new Electron UI would ever replace the Qt UI, but since it doesn't
> exist yet it could be far too early for that.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2019, 2:17 PM M.K. Safi via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > I’d like to try to rebuild Bitcoin Core GUI using the JavaScript Electron framework. My goal is to get a real world understanding of the pros and cons of moving from Qt to Electron.
> >
> > Before I start, I‘d like to know if this has been tried before or if there are ongoing efforts in this direction by anyone?
> >
> > I spent sometime looking into how to implement this. One approach could be for Electron to drive the UI by running bitcoind and communicating with it through RPC. But I don’t know if such implementation can achieve feature-parity with the Qt implementation. Qt has the advantage of direct access to Bitcoin Core code.
> >
> > Anyways, I just wanted to share these ideas before going further with them, so please let me know if you have any information on the above!
> > --
> > Sent from my iPhone
> > _______________________________________________
> > bitcoin-dev mailing list
> > bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org
> > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
> _______________________________________________
> bitcoin-dev mailing list
> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
>
📝 Original message:You may find my (incomplete) front-end of interest:
https://bitcoin.electronrelocation.com
The live demo is backed by a -disablewallet node, but it was able to accept payments and send them via QR codes before I stopped development.
The source is available via AGPLv3.
https://git.esotericnonsense.com/pub/bitcoin-top.git
I am unable to continue development due to time constraints.
Daniel Edgecumbe | esotericnonsense
email at esotericnonsense.com | https://esotericnonsense.com
On Sat, Nov 23, 2019, at 17:49, Oscar Lafarga via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hi MK,
>
> I very much share your interests and curiosities here and actually
> don't have an answer on whether it's been tried before.
>
> One of the few things I am imagining is that given the security-focused
> nature of the Bitcoin Core software, any vulnerabilities in the way NPM
> handles the dependencies of the Electron app would be a very high
> priority (see
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/)
>
> In NodeJS-land, my sense is that there is a "move fast and break
> things" mentality that may have seeped into some practices that may be
> considered standard. I have seen some recent developments over the past
> few years to address these kinds of issues such as npm-audit (as of
> Node v6+) but I would recommend doing some thorough research on this
> front to make sure there is a secure dependency management solution in
> place for such a GUI.
>
> Another comment I'd make is that if we consider the GUI as a layer that
> is separate from the protocol layer, this mailing list may not be the
> best place to fully discuss this. However I think if anyone here who
> has been around longer can contribute info on past attempts at this, it
> could be quite productive. This could technically exist as an
> independent client, but I guess there's a conversation on whether this
> new Electron UI would ever replace the Qt UI, but since it doesn't
> exist yet it could be far too early for that.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2019, 2:17 PM M.K. Safi via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > I’d like to try to rebuild Bitcoin Core GUI using the JavaScript Electron framework. My goal is to get a real world understanding of the pros and cons of moving from Qt to Electron.
> >
> > Before I start, I‘d like to know if this has been tried before or if there are ongoing efforts in this direction by anyone?
> >
> > I spent sometime looking into how to implement this. One approach could be for Electron to drive the UI by running bitcoind and communicating with it through RPC. But I don’t know if such implementation can achieve feature-parity with the Qt implementation. Qt has the advantage of direct access to Bitcoin Core code.
> >
> > Anyways, I just wanted to share these ideas before going further with them, so please let me know if you have any information on the above!
> > --
> > Sent from my iPhone
> > _______________________________________________
> > bitcoin-dev mailing list
> > bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org
> > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
> _______________________________________________
> bitcoin-dev mailing list
> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
>