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Freighter
Freighter is a non-custodial wallet extension that enables you to sign Stellar transactions via your browser. Learn more at freighter.app.
Yarn Workspaces
This repo is constructed using yarn workspaces and consists of the 4 sections:
- the browser extension (
/extension
) - the client-facing SDK (
/@stellar/freighter-api
) - the docs (
/docs
) - some shared files that the above use (
/@shared/*
)
Prerequisites
You will need
- Node (>=21): https://nodejs.org/en/download/
- Yarn (v1.22.5 or newer): https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install
Build the extension
To simply build a production version of the extension, install the prerequisites then navigate to this root folder (/freighter
) in your command line and run these 2 steps:
yarn install
yarn setup
followed by
yarn build:extension:production
This will generate the files that make up the extension in extension/build
Starting a dev environment
yarn setup
yarn start
This will start up multiple watching builds in parallel:
- The
@stellar/freighter-api
npm module - The docs, serving on
localhost:3000
- A dev server with the webapp running in the extension, serving on
localhost:9000
- The actual built extension, able to be installed in Chrome or Firefox, in
build/
Each of these will build in response to editing their source.
These can be started individually with yarn start:\<workspace name\>
where
\<workspace name\>
is one of:
freighter-api
docs
extension
yarn build
This will produce final output for the docs, the @stellar/freighter
npm module, and
the extension.
yarn build:\<workspace name\>
, like the equivalent start commands, will build
an individual workspace.
Testing for Safari
First you should allow unsigned extension in your safari session. This resets every time Safari shuts down. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions/running_your_safari_web_extension#3744467
Next, run the Safari Extension Converter locally to convert Freighter to an xcode project.
Example from the project root -
xcrun safari-web-extension-converter freighter/extension/build --project-location freighter-safari
That should launch your project in xcode. You should run the project, with a target of macos. If you have not allowed unsigned extensions, you will see a related warning but otherwise you should see Freighter launched on your Safari instance.
Useful URLs:
Build the extension and install it on your machine
The signTransaction
playground
It's important to note that these last functions won't interact with the dev server popup
UI on localhost:9000
— you'll need to re-install the unpacked extension each
time you make a change.
Importing a workspace
In some cases, you will want to import a workspace into another. For example, in
extension
we need to import @shared/constants
. To do this, simply add
@shared/constants
to the dependencies list in package.json in extension
. Yarn
symlinks all the workspaces, so doing so will allow you to import files from the
@shared/constants
workspace as if it were a published npm package.
Dependencies
Many dev dependencies (such as Typescript, linters, Webpack, etc.) have been moved to the root package.json
to allow devs to upgrade these libraries all in one place.
Pushing to repo
This repo will run a pre-push hook before pushing. This hook will run the cmd yarn build:extension:translations
to check if any strings in the extension need to be added to the translations JSON. If there is no need to update the translations JSON, the push will go through. If there is a need to update, the changes will be automatically committed to your branch and the push will be aborted. You will need to run git push
again.
NOTE: If you're using nvm and run into an error where the git hook is using an incompatible version of node, create a file ~/.huskryc
on your system and added the following:
# This loads nvm.sh, sets the correct PATH before running hook, and ensures the project version of Node
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
# If you have an .nvmrc file, we use the relevant node version
if [[ -f ".nvmrc" ]]; then
nvm use
fi
This will instruct the git hook to use the .nvmrc found in this repo.