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From: "M.K. Safi" <msafi@msafi.com>
To: "bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: [bitcoin-dev] I want to rebuild the GUI in JavaScript
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:45:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABCTTz6A_ahH_3VZ1stBP4uoqTTcwQCQ_X1Xywdi33etssCioA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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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!
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             reply	other threads:[~2019-11-23  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-23  6:45 M.K. Safi [this message]
2019-11-23 16:49 ` [bitcoin-dev] I want to rebuild the GUI in JavaScript Oscar Lafarga
2019-11-23 20:07   ` Daniel Edgecumbe
2019-11-23 18:27 ` Jonas Schnelli
2020-01-16 18:30   ` M.K. Safi

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