Blip Wallet

The Blip Wallet is a local application that allows you to create, manage, and import an Echo account, send and receive assets or ERC20 tokens on the Echo network. The wallet is built on the latest technologies and available for Linux, Mac, and Windows operating systems.

Features

• Create, manage, and import accounts.
• Multiple account creation and management.
• Send and receive transactions.
• View transaction history.
• Watch ERC20 tokens balances.
• Work with different networks.
• View the status of the node.

Desktop apps

Electron-based desktop apps for Linux (packaged as deb, rpm), MacOS (packaged as dmg) and Windows installer(.exe) are available for download from the releases page.

Installation Prerequisites

Before installing, download and install Node.js. Node.js 8.x.x or higher is required.

If you want to work with local Echo Node and Echo DB you need to install dependencies:

• Echo DB.
• Echo Node.

Install Blip Wallet from github source

Use the following steps to install the wallet from github source:

Clone the git repository:

git clone https://github.com/echoprotocol/blip-wallet.git

Go into the repository:

cd blip-wallet

Use the package manager npm to install dependencies:

npm install

Running the Web Development Version of Your App

This starts the process in web development mode and starts a webpack dev server:

npm run web

This will launch the Blip Wallet at http://localhost:8888

Running the Development Version of Your App

Sometimes it is useful to run the development version of your app locally. This can be done by running

npm run dev

Running the Production Version of Your App

Sometimes it is useful to run the production version of your app locally. This can be done by running

npm run start

Building the wallet for Production as Web Application

If you want builds the wallet for production to the dist folder run this command:

npm run build-web

It correctly bundles Blip Wallet in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance

Building the Electron-based desktop app for Linux on Linux

If you want builds the apps(.deb, .snap, AppImage, .rpm) for Linux to the release folder run this command:

npm run package-linux

Note: you need to install rpm package sudo apt-get install rpm

Building the Electron-based desktop app for Windows on Windows

If you want builds the app for Windows to the release folder run this command:

npm run package-win

Building the Electron-based desktop app for MacOS on MacOS

If you want builds the app for MacOS to the release folder run this command:

npm run package-mac

Building the Electron-based desktop app for Windows on Linux

If you want builds the app for Windows on Linux to the release you need to install Wine (2.0+ is required)

After install the Wine run this command:

npm run package-win

Building the Electron App using Docker for Windows on any platform.

You can use Docker to avoid installing system dependencies. Docker (electronuserland/builder:wine with installed Wine) is recommended to avoid installing system dependencies. To build app for Windows on any platform run docker container:

docker run --rm -ti \
 -v ${PWD}:/project \
 electronuserland/builder:wine

Type in

npm run package-win

You will find your .exe build file in release directory.

Building the Electron App using Docker for Linux on any platform.

Docker (electronuserland/builder:10. 10 is major NodeJS version) is recommended to avoid installing system dependencies.

docker run --rm -ti \
 -v ${PWD}:/project \
 electronuserland/builder:10

Type in

npm run package-linux

You will find your build files(.deb, .snap, AppImage, .rpm) in release directory.

Building the Electron-based desktop app for MacOS on another platform

You will need a mac machine to make a .dmg build.

Lint

To lint your *.js and *.jsx files run this command:

npm run lint

Running Tests

Tests can be run by running

npm run test

Contributing

Read our Contributing Guide to learn about our development process, how to propose bugfixes and improvements.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015-present Electron React Boilerplate

Copyright (c) 2019 Echo Technological Solutions LLC

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.