Scuttle Shell

This is a Secure Scuttlebutt system tray application. It provides an always-running sbot for your local system.

This app also setups itself as a Native Host App that can be used by authorized Firefox Add-ons such as Patchfox.

Dependencies

You must have Git and Node installed.

Install globally

$ npm install -g scuttle-shell

or if you cloned this repo (run from the repo folder itself):

$ npm install -g

You can run the app by executing scuttleshell on your terminal.

Using it programmatically

Right now, there is only one feature exported by the scuttle-shell module which is the ability to start a server. Example:

let scuttleshell = require("scuttle-shell")

console.log("Starting sbot, quitting after 30 seconds")
scuttleshell.start()

setTimeout(scuttleshell.stop, 30000)

Setup

This application is built with NodeJS. To set it up run:

$ npm install

This should set it up. If anything fails you can check your setup with

Checking your setup

Depending on your running operating system, you can check the configuration using:

$ npm run check

or

$ npm run check-win

Running Setup (again)

If anything went wrong during the setup or if you rename the folder this app is in, you can redo the setup with:

$ npm install