You may find my (incomplete) front-end of interest: https://bitcoin.electronrelocation.com
The live demo is backed by a -disablewallet node, but it was able to accept payments and send them via QR codes before I stopped development. The source is available via AGPLv3. https://git.esotericnonsense.com/pub/bitcoin-top.git I am unable to continue development due to time constraints. Daniel Edgecumbe | esotericnonsense em...@esotericnonsense.com | https://esotericnonsense.com On Sat, Nov 23, 2019, at 17:49, Oscar Lafarga via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Hi MK, > > I very much share your interests and curiosities here and actually > don't have an answer on whether it's been tried before. > > One of the few things I am imagining is that given the security-focused > nature of the Bitcoin Core software, any vulnerabilities in the way NPM > handles the dependencies of the Electron app would be a very high > priority (see > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/) > > In NodeJS-land, my sense is that there is a "move fast and break > things" mentality that may have seeped into some practices that may be > considered standard. I have seen some recent developments over the past > few years to address these kinds of issues such as npm-audit (as of > Node v6+) but I would recommend doing some thorough research on this > front to make sure there is a secure dependency management solution in > place for such a GUI. > > Another comment I'd make is that if we consider the GUI as a layer that > is separate from the protocol layer, this mailing list may not be the > best place to fully discuss this. However I think if anyone here who > has been around longer can contribute info on past attempts at this, it > could be quite productive. This could technically exist as an > independent client, but I guess there's a conversation on whether this > new Electron UI would ever replace the Qt UI, but since it doesn't > exist yet it could be far too early for that. > > Thanks, > > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2019, 2:17 PM M.K. Safi via bitcoin-dev > <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > I’d like to try to rebuild Bitcoin Core GUI using the JavaScript Electron > > framework. My goal is to get a real world understanding of the pros and > > cons of moving from Qt to Electron. > > > > Before I start, I‘d like to know if this has been tried before or if there > > are ongoing efforts in this direction by anyone? > > > > I spent sometime looking into how to implement this. One approach could be > > for Electron to drive the UI by running bitcoind and communicating with it > > through RPC. But I don’t know if such implementation can achieve > > feature-parity with the Qt implementation. Qt has the advantage of direct > > access to Bitcoin Core code. > > > > Anyways, I just wanted to share these ideas before going further with them, > > so please let me know if you have any information on the above! > > -- > > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________________ > > bitcoin-dev mailing list > > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev