Brave Sync

A client/server for Brave sync

Building

Yarn must be installed first, though npm and yarn will both work for the commands below. If you're adding packages to package.json, please yarn install and commit changes to yarn.lock.

Install dependencies:

yarn install

Build a bundled JS library for the client:

yarn run build

Run the server:

yarn run start

Testing

The sync client uses Browserify to transform Node js into browser js. To unittest the library in a browser (default: electron), run yarn browsertest. To test in a different browser run yarn browsertest -- --browser chrome. Results appear in both the browser inspector and your terminal.

To run tests in Node, just do yarn test.

To do a basic client/server integration test against the production server, run npm run client and navigate to http://localhost:8000/). The page should not show any 'ERROR' messages and should end with 'success'.

Development

Server

server/config contains settings; defaults in defaults.json and environment variable mappings in custom-environment-variables.json.

To configure locally you can create a file config-dev.sh and source config-dev.sh when needed:

#!/bin/bash
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="{stuff}"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="{secret stuff}"

Run the server with file watching and autoreloading:

yarn run start-dev

Client integration

To integrate Brave sync on a platform (iOS, Android, Laptop):

1. Make a new branch.
2. In the main browser process, implement an IPC message handler as specified in client/constants/messages.js.
3. If webviews on your platform do not support chrome.ipcRenderer.{send, on}, edit client/polyfill/chrome.js as needed to polyfill this functionality.

Building for browser-laptop

1. Make sure this repo is checked out next to browser-laptop/
2. Checkout the feature/syncing branch in browser-laptop
3. npm run dist
4. If developing, do npm start in browser-laptop. Console messages from the sync client will be logged in Library/Application Support/brave-development/chrome-debug.log.

Tests

To run tests you need to configure these environment variables:

• AWS_REGION
• AWS_S3_BUCKET
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY