Webmesh Client Application

This is a GUI client application for the webmesh project. It is written in Go using the fyne toolkit. It can be used to connect to a webmesh for client-only use. In the future it may be extended to include support for server functionality.

Development

Prerequisites

• An accessible webmesh node. You can use the docker-compose in this repository to run one locally.
• Go 1.20 or later

Building and Running

To build the application, run go build in the root of this repository or you can use go run main.go to build and run it in one step. Since the application needs to manage network interfaces and routes, a privileged daemon is required if the app is not run as root. The daemon can be started by running a webmesh-node with the --app-daemon flag. You can also use the docker-compose in this repository to run a node with the daemon enabled.

webmesh-node --app-daemon --app-daemon-bind tcp://127.0.0.1:8080

By default, on unix-like systems, the daemon will listen on a unix socket at /var/run/webmesh/webmesh.sock. The permissions of the socket will be set to 770 with an ownership of root:root or root:webmesh if the group exists. This will be the preferred method of communication for deployment targets.

To start an app pre-set to a specific socket address you can pass the --socket-addr flag to the app.

go run main.go --socket-addr tcp://127.0.0.1:8080