Requirements
Major Requirements
- Named Data Networking Forwarding Daemon NFD
- Electron js
- Node.js
- ndn-js
- electron-db
- Active Internet Connection
Other Requirements
Installation Process
Before executing the application, all the major requirements needs to be installed properly
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Installing NFD
- Well documented installation guides are available on the following links:
- Getting Started With NFD
- http://named-data.net/doc/NFD/current/INSTALL.html
- Once you install NFD correctly, you can test it using the following commands:
- nfd-start - to start NFD, nfd-stop - to kill NFD, nfdc status, nfdc fib, nfdc routes
- IMPORTANT: NFD is a requirement to execute the application, it should be up and running.
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Installing Node and Electron
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Installing Node
- node is required to execute .js files in local env
- e.g. node xyz.js
- Node installation guide for MAC: https://nodejs.org/en/download/
- Node installation guide for Linux: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions
- Note: apt-get installs old version of node, make sure to follow the instructions above.
- node is required to execute .js files in local env
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Installing Electron
- Follow the Github Instructions to install electro https://github.com/electron/electron-api-demos/blob/master/README.md
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Installing ndn-js
- Download ndn-js from https://github.com/named-data/ndn-js
- Have it somewhere on the desktop, better inside the application folder itself. We will use its path on the application
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Installing the APP BIRB
- Unzip the folder BIRB-master.zip or
- $ git clone https://github.com/dulalsaurab/BIRB.git
- $ cd BIRB
- Open "nfd-operations" file and provide the path of ndn-js (downloaded above) on path variable “path-ndn”
- $ npm install
- $ npm start
Screenshots
4. References
[1] https://github.com/named-data/NFD
[2] https://named-data.net/
[3] https://github.com/named-data/ndn-js
[4] https://electronjs.org/
[5] https://github.com/jvadillo/twitter-bootstrap