OpenBSD + Electron

An effort to port Electron (and, by extension, VS Code) to OpenBSD.
It includes custom modnpm and modyarn modules to facilitate the integration of Node-based ports.

Status : Working, need some more cleaning.

Electron

Electron is built on Chromium, utilizing the same patches and features as the current port. The implementation includes OpenBSD-specific support for pledge and unveil, with a per-application design.

Electron is installed system-wide with a single installation, and applications should be compatible with this shared version. Instead of creating distfiles or bundling Electron with individual applications (though technically feasible), each application includes a dedicated wrapper to properly initialize Electron with its specific configuration and resources.

Efforts are underway to implement fuses support with a single, sensible default.

Node packages managers

To avoid network usage during the build process, the available options are quite limited:

• Using a pre-made cache for offline functionality, which requires someone to distribute the archive
• Filling the cache before the extraction phase, necessitating a tool to populate the cache
• Extracting directly into node_modules, which should be the package manager's job and is complex to implement

The most viable solution seems to fill the cache before extraction.

• yarn: works well with a simple, flat, directory cache
• npm: use cacache and also repository API, not only package module
• pnpm: todo
• berry: to study

Each package manager generates a lock file that describes all dependencies and the structure of node_modules.
The port-modules tool parses these lock files to produce a modules.inc file.

• moyarn: fill the cache during extract, limited support for Electron ports only
• modnpm: setup node_modules, lightly tested on different kinds of ports

The plan is to implement a cache-add CLI for each package manager, aiming for upstream adoption.

Ports included

• VScode : everythings seems to works without sandboxing, kerberos support not tested
• teams-for-linux : screen share, webcam, audio tested ok
• signal-desktop : screen share, webcam, audio tested ok
• stretchly : ok
• byar-chobby : ok