DeSo is a blockchain built from the ground up to support a fully-featured social network. Its architecture is similar to Bitcoin, only it supports complex social network data like profiles, posts, follows, creator coin transactions, and more.
Documentation for this repo lives on docs.deso.org. Specifically, the following docs should give you everything you need to get started:
The quickest way to contribute changes to DiamondApp is the following these steps:
- Open frontend repo in Gitpod
You can use any repo / branch URL and just prepend https://gitpod.io/# to it.
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If needed, login to your github account
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Set the correct
lastLocalNodeV2to"https://api.tijn.club"in your browser Local Storage for the gitpod preview URL -
Create a new branch to start working
To commit / submit a pull reqest from gitpod, you will need to give gitpod additional permissions to your github account: public_repo, read:org, read:user, repo, user:email, workflow which you can do on the GitPod Integrations page.
Twitter sync requires the development build to be served on allowed domains that can communicate via postMessage with the setu deso domain.
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The easiest way to get started is by installing a reverse proxy tool called mitmproxy. See their website for the installation instructions for your platform. On mac you can install it with homebrew:
brew install mitmproxy
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Edit your hosts file to route the dev.diamondapp.com domain to localhost:
sudo vi /etc/hosts # add this line 127.0.0.1 dev.diamondapp.com -
Run your local angular dev server with the
--disable-host-checkflag:#NOTE: you may need to install ng globally: npm i -g @angular/cli ng serve --disable-host-checkThis should start a dev server at http://localhost:4200
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Run mitmproxy in reverse proxy mode over https:
mitmproxy -p 443 --mode reverse:http://localhost:4200
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Load https://dev.diamondapp.com in google chrome.
- If you get an SSL error that will not allow you to proceed you will need
to reset the HSTS settings for the diamondapp.com domain. Do that by
navigating to this settings page chrome://net-internals/#hsts and in the
Delete domain security policies input, type
diamondapp.com(WITHOUT thedevsubdomain) and click delete. You should now be able to reload https://dev.diamondapp.com and proceed after clicking the "Advanced" button.
- If you get an SSL error that will not allow you to proceed you will need
to reset the HSTS settings for the diamondapp.com domain. Do that by
navigating to this settings page chrome://net-internals/#hsts and in the
Delete domain security policies input, type
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Open dev tools and update the local storage value for
lastLocalNodeV2to point to https://node.deso.org -
Reload the page again and if everything was done properly you should now be able to see your local development copy being served on https://dev.diamondapp.com