jitsi-meet-electron/README.md

# Jitsi Meet Electron

Desktop application for [Jitsi Meet] built with [Electron].

![](screenshot.png)

## Features

- Works with any Jitsi Meet deployment
- Local settings
- Builtin auto-updates
- Remote control
- Always-On-Top window

## Installation

Grab the [latest release] and you're off to the races! The supported platforms
are macOS, Windows (both 32 and 64bits) and GNU/Linux (64bits only).

<details><summary>NOTE for old GNU/Linux distributions</summary>

You might get the following error:

```
FATAL:nss_util.cc(632)] NSS_VersionCheck("3.26") failed. NSS >= 3.26 is required.
Please upgrade to the latest NSS, and if you still get this error, contact your
distribution maintainer.
```

If you do, please install NSS (example for Debian / Ubuntu):

```bash
sudo apt-get install libnss3
```

</details>

## Development

If you want to hack on this project, here is how you do it.

<details><summary>Expand</summary>

#### Installing dependencies

```bash
npm install
```

#### Starting in development mode

```bash
npm start
```

#### Building the production distribution

```bash
npm run dist
```

#### Working with jitsi-meet-electron-utils

[jitsi-meet-electron-utils] is a helper package which implements many features
such as remote control and the always-on-top window. If new features are to be
added / tested, running with a local version of these utils is very handy, here
is how to do that.

By default the jitsi-meet-electron-utils is build from its git repository
sources. The default dependency path in package.json is:

```json
"jitsi-meet-electron-utils": "jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron-utils"
```

To work with local copy you must change the path to:

```json
"jitsi-meet-electron-utils": "file:///Users/name/jitsi-meet-electron-utils-copy",
```

To build the project you must force it to take the sources as `npm update` will
not do it.

```bash
npm install jitsi-meet-electron-utils --force
```

NOTE: Also check the [jitsi-meet-electron-utils README] to see how to configure
your environment.

</details>

## License

Apache 2. See the [LICENSE] file.

## Community

Jitsi is built by a large community of developers, if you want to participate,
please join [community forum].

[Jitsi Meet]: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet
[Electron]: https://electronjs.org/
[latest release]: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/latest
[jitsi-meet-electron-utils]: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron-utils
[jitsi-meet-electron-utils README]: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron-utils/blob/master/README.md
[community forum]: https://community.jitsi.org/
[LICENSE]: LICENSE