Stacks Wallet for web

Stacks Wallet is a browser extension for managing your digital assets and connecting to apps built with the Stacks blockchain.

Source code is available on GitHub at https://github.com/blockstack/stacks-wallet-web/tree/main

To use this extension with your own Stacks App, we recommend using Connect.

Table of Contents:

• Development
  • Setup
  • Dev mode
    • Optional: run test app
  • Add extension to your browser
    • Chromium
    • Firefox
  • Adding a Changeset
• Production
  • Building browser extensions
    • Optional: use Docker
  • Install browser extension from source
    • Chromium
    • Firefox

Development

When working locally with stacks-wallet-web, it can only be used as you'd use any extension. There is no ability to run it as a standalone web application.

Setup

Clone this repository and install dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/blockstack/stacks-wallet-web
cd stacks-wallet-web
yarn

Dev mode

When working on the extension, you can run it in development mode which will watch for any file changes and use react-refresh to update the extension as you work. This gives us near instant reloading of our changes, and persists the state of the application between changes. To start development mode for the extension, run this command:

yarn dev

Optional: run test app

We bundle a test app to use along with the extension. It gives easy access to the various functions that the extension can do.

In a separate terminal, run:

yarn dev:test-app

Add extension to your browser

After starting development mode, you'll have to add it to your browser of choice. Stacks Wallet for web currently only supports chromium and firefox browsers. When you run yarn dev, it will compile the application to the /dist folder within the project.

Chromium

1. Go to: chrome://extensions
2. Toggle: "developer mode" on
3. Click on: "Load unpacked"
4. Navigate to the stacks-wallet-web project directory
5. Select the dist directory to load the extension

Firefox

1. Go to: about:debugging
2. Click on "This Firefox"
3. Click on: "Load Temporary Add-on…"
4. Navigate to the stacks-wallet-web project directory
5. Select the manifest.json file.

Adding a Changeset

This repository utilizes Changesets in order to create a CHANGELOG.md file and update the version of the wallet. Each pull request should include a changeset, which includes a description of the changes made in your PR. Most information can be found in the changesets repository, but the quickest way to add a changeset is to run yarn changeset add. You'll be prompted to enter a summary of your changes.

Once your PR is merged into the main branch, a new pull request will automatically be created. This is a "release" pull request. The PR will merge your changesets into the CHANGELOG.md file, and will update the version of the wallet appropriately, depending on the type of change you've made.

In general, you should not update the version of the wallet (found in package.json). Each commit in a PR will generate a "beta" version, which can be used for testing.

Production

Build from source

Run the following from within this repository's root directory if you've pulled it with Git:

sh build-ext.sh

Alternatively, run the following if you've downloaded the source code as a zip file from GitHub:

Optional: Use docker

docker build -f Dockerfile -t stacks-wallet-web . \
  && docker run -d --name stacks-wallet-web stacks-wallet-web \
  && docker cp stacks-wallet-web:stacks-wallet-chromium.zip . \
  && docker rm -f stacks-wallet-web

The extension will be packaged as stacks-wallet-chromium.zip.

Install from source

First, unzip the stacks-wallet-chromium.zip file that was generated in the previous step.

Then for Chrome, Brave or Edge:

1. Go to: chrome://extensions
2. Toggle: "developer mode" on.
3. Click on: "Load unpacked"
4. Select the new directory that was unzipped from stacks-wallet-chromium.zip.

Alternatively, for Firefox:

1. Go to: about:debugging
2. Click on "This Firefox"
3. Click on: "Load Temporary Add-on…"
4. Navigate inside the new directory that was unzipped from stacks-wallet-chromium.zip
5. Select the manifest.json file.