Brave Browser

Laptop and Desktop browser for OS X and Windows.

Installation

1. Clone the git repository from GitHub:

    git clone [email protected]:brave/browser-laptop.git
   

2. Open the working directory:

    cd browser-laptop
   

3. Install the Node dependencies:

    npm install
   

Development

To start the server and file watchers run the following on the command line:

npm run watch

To run the browser:

npm start

To run the tests:

npm run watch-test  or  npm run watch-all

npm test

See docs/debugging.md for information on debugging.

Running inside of a development version of Brave's Electron fork

We are currently using a fork of Electron with some minor modifications here: https://github.com/brave/electron

Build instructions:

• OSX build instructions
• Windows build instructions
• Linux build instructions

Packaging

OSX:

From within brave-browser you can create a .app file for distribution:

npm run build-darwin

After the .app file is built you can create a dmg with:

npm run installer-darwin

Windows 7,8,10 x64:

Prerequisite: You must have NSIS installed.

To create a folder with the app .exe and all dependencies:

npm run build-win64

After the above folder is created, you can create an NSIS based installer with:

npm run installer-win64

Other platforms:

Packaging is not implemented yet for other platforms, but it would be simple for linux.

Developer Tools

Development builds will automatically open developer tools within the browser.