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Parity UI is a User Interface desktop application for Parity Ethereum Client >=v1.10. In order to use Parity UI, you must have Parity Ethereum Client >=v1.10 installed on your system. By default Parity UI will listen to any running Parity client on your system and connect to it. If none was found, a Parity Ethereum Client process will be launched in background and connect to Ethereum mainnet.

If you run into any User Interface related issue while using Parity UI, feel free to file one in this repository or hop on our Gitter or Riot chat room to ask a question. We are glad to help!

You can download Parity UI at https://github.com/parity-js/shell/releases/latest or follow the instructions below to build from source.

In any of the supported Linux distros:

sudo snap install parity-ui --beta

And to test the latest code landed into the master branch:

sudo snap install parity-ui --edge

Parity UI lives in the next branch. The master branch contains the browser-based UI bundled inside Parity v1.9-stable. The next branch contains the standalone Electron app.

The first step is to checkout the next branch:

git checkout next

Then run the following:

npm install
npm run electron

You should see the Electron app popping up.

One further, albeit optional step is to create an OS-spefific binary. This is done with the following command:

npm run release

This command may take some time. Once finished, you will see binaries for you OS in the dist/ folder.

The best Developer Experience is achieved by running:

parity --ui-no-validation # Warning: INSECURE. Only use it when developing the UI.
npm start

A new browser tab will open on http://localhost:3000 with the UI, and this tab will refresh on any code change. This DX allows fast iterations.

If you want to test the rendering in an Electron window, run parallely with the previous command:

npm run electron:dev

This will spawn an Electron window serving http://localhost:3000. Same thing, the Electron window will refresh on any code change.