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What's This?

This Project contains 'boilerplate' open source code which can be customised to create command line applications which interact with the SAFE Network. It uses pkg to create packaged executables for Linux, Windows and Mac OS.

About SAFE Network

The SAFE Network is a truly autonomous, decentralised internet. This Secure Access For Everyone Network (SAFE) tackles the increasing risks to individuals, business and nation states arising from over centralisation, domination by commercial monopolies, security risks from malware, hacking, surveillance and so on. It's a new and truly open internet aligned with the original vision held by its creators and early users, with security, net neutrality and unmediated open access baked in.

The following are currently all unique to the SAFE Network:

• all services are secure and decentralised, including a human readable DNS
• highly censorship resistant to DDoS, deep packet inspection and nation state filters
• truly autonomous network
• data is guaranteed to be stored and available, forever with no ongoing fees (pay once to store)
• truly decentralised 'proof of resource' (farming), and not 'proof of work' or 'proof of stake'
• scalable non-blockchain based storage not just of hashes of data, but the data itself
• scalable non-blockchain cryptographically secured currency (Safecoin) with zero transaction fees

SAFE Network operates using the resources of anonymous 'farmers' who are rewarded with Safecoin, which they can sell or use to purchase storage and other services on the network. Safecoin is efficent and scalable (non-blockchain based) secure and anonymous digital cash.

SAFE is an open source project of @maidsafe, a private company which is majority owned by a Scottish charity, both based in Scotland but which is decentralised with employees and contributors based around the globe.

Dependencies

SAFE Browser: if you are not yet familiar with developing for SAFE Network, or have not previously used the 'mock' SAFE Browser to develop and test your code, I recommend that you try the SAFE Network Nodejs tutorial before proceeding. Doing so will ensure you have all the pre-requisites and help you understand anything not made explicit in the instructions below.

NodeJS: check your versions of node and npm against the following which are known to work. Note that node v8.x is a requirment of the SAFE Network API: @maidsafe/safe-node-app.

$ node --version
v8.10.0
$ npm --version
5.6.0

I recommend nvm for managing node vesions.

Get the source

Clone this repository into safe-cli-boilerplate:

git clone https://github.com/theWebalyst/safe-cli-boilerplate
cd safe-cli-boilerplate

Build for mock network

If you have problems, please check the dependencies section above.

export NODE_ENV=dev
npm install

Build an executable for the host OS only, the default (output in ./dist/mock):

export NODE_ENV=dev
npm run build-mock

For Linux, Mac and Windows targets:

export NODE_ENV=dev
npm run buildall-mock

To test with mock

Start the SAFE Browser in another terminal with:

export NODE_ENV=dev
safe-browser

In the browser, create an account on the mock network.

In your development terminal, in your build directory type:

export NODE_ENV=dev
./dist/mock/safecmd

You should see output to the terminal generated by the example code in cli.js which lists the directory contents, similar to the following:

.gitignore - 992 B
LICENSE - 34.32 KB
README.md - 96 B
cli.js - 3.59 KB
dist - 4 KB
example.example.log - 4 B
node_modules - 4 KB
package-lock.json - 57.46 KB
package.json - 1010 B
safe-app-cli.js - 3.38 KB
yarn-error.log - 39.76 KB

The SAFE Browser window should then activate and ask you to authorise the example app. If you click Allow the app will continue and print more output to the console before exiting, as follows:

Quick Setup Completed
New file is created and saved to the network successfully
The file has been opened and read
The content of the file which has been read: Hello Safe World

Build for live network

If you have problems, please check the dependencies section above.

export NODE_ENV=
npm install

Build an executable for the host OS only, the default (output in ./dist/prod):

export NODE_ENV=
npm run build

For Linux, Mac and Windows targets:

export NODE_ENV=
npm run buildall

Problems?

Before requesting help here, please follow the SAFE Network Nodejs Tutorial and ensure you are able to build a desktop app. That should ensure you have all the pre-requisites, and help you to understood how to test using a mock SAFE Network.

Contributions

Pull requests are welcome for outstanding issues and feature requests. Please note that contributions must be subject to the Project License (see below), and that if an incompatible license is present in your contribution it will be rejected.

IMPORTANT: By submitting a pull request, you will be offering code under either the Project License or a license that is compatible with and does not restrict the Project License of any existing files in the Project, or of any code in the Project that is substantially similar to your contribution. If your submission is not compatible with the Project License, the license specified below (under 'License') will apply to your submission by default.

Before submitting your code please consider using Standard.js formatting. You may also find it helps to use an editor with support for Standard.js when developing and testing. An easy way is just to use Atom IDE with the package [ide-standardjs] (and optionally standard-formatter). Or you can install NodeJS Standard.js.

Acknowledgments

Thank you:

• @b-zee for doing the hard bits and for his code which is now part of this repo.

• @davidpbrown @southside @draw and @hunterlester, the brave members of SAFE developer forum who tested the first flaky versions!

• @zeit for pkg

Project License

This project is made available under the GPL-3.0 LICENSE except for individual files which contain their own license so long as that file license is compatible with GPL-3.0.

The responsibility for checking this licensing is valid and that your use of this code complies lies with any person and organisation making any use of it.