We define applications running on the dweb-browser browser as Plaoc App. You can understand that dweb_browser is like WeChat and plaoc app is like the mini programs running inside it.

Because dweb-browser currently supports mainstream platforms like Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows, Linux, your web application can rely on plaoc to directly implement multi-end publishing.

Plaoc is a product of web3. Applications will be relatively independent, so each plaoc application package can be published using its own application website.

Of course, your website can also be an application center, containing your application matrix, making application publishing more efficient.

Plaoc app development process

First you need to create a manifest.json file in the root directory of your application. You can think of manifest.json as equivalent to PWA's manifest.json.

It mainly declares some application parameters and does some display when the user installs.

plaoc-app
├── ......other project files
└── manifest.json

The following sample configuration file, copy the following content and paste it into manifest.json in the root directory. Click to view field details

{
  "id": "game.dweb.waterbang.top.dweb",
  "name": "game",
  "short_name": "vue3-game",
  "description": "This is an example application that contains instances of all dweb_plugins components.",
  "logo": "https://www.bfmeta.info/imgs/logo3.webp",
  "images": [
    "http://qiniu-waterbang.waterbang.top/bfm/cot-home_2058.webp",
    "http://qiniu-waterbang.waterbang.top/bfm/defi.png",
    "http://qiniu-waterbang.waterbang.top/bfm/nft.png"
  ],
  "author": ["bfs", "bfs@bfs.com"],
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "change_log": "Added a new one-click bang bang bang feature!",
  "home": "https://dweb.waterbang.top",
  "categories": ["application"],
  "lang": "zh-Hans",
  "languages": []
}

Now your app has been declared as a Plaoc app.

How to start development

First install @plaoc/cli

Or use npx to run without polluting the global environment

Example: npx plaoc bundle ./usr/www

@plaoc/cli is the development tool for plaoc that helps applications run, package, and publish. Specific command prompts can be viewed using --help or documentation.

• Execute the installation command:

PNPM

  pnpm add -g @plaoc/cli

YARN

  yarn global add @plaoc/cli

NPM

  npm i -g @plaoc/cli

Start the project

This example uses vite to start the project:

npx vite --host

The terminal outputs

VITE v4.4.9 ready in 88 ms
➜ Local: http://localhost:5173/
➜ Network: http://172.30.95.28:5173/

Build app data link

Use the plaoc command installed above to build:

plaoc serve http://172.30.95.28:5173/
#or
npx plaoc serve http://172.30.95.28:5173/

The terminal outputs

metadata: http://127.0.0.1:8096/metadata.json
metadata: http://172.30.95.28:8096/metadata.json

You can use plaoc serve --help to see more features.

Start development

First you need to download the dweb-browser desktop according to your operating system.

Next, run dweb-browser with the command to start developer mode.

Windows

& "D:\DownLoads\Dweb Browser-x.x.x.exe" install --url http://172.30.93.43:8096/metadata.json

MacOS

open /Applications/Dweb\ Browser.app --args install --url http://127.0.0.1:8096/metadata.json

Now you can see the development and debugging interface. You should also find that what you just downloaded is also the desktop version of dweb-browser.

Package

After plaoc-app development is complete, @plaoc/cli is still used to package the app. The command is as follows:

plaoc bundle ./dist

./dist is the output source directory for packaging

Publish

Upload to the public plaoc app store or upload to your app's official website. For information about how to provide downloads from the official app website or how to provide downloads from the app store, visit: App Store.

If you have installed the Dweb Browser app on your phone, you can first upload the two files you packaged to the same folder, and then generate the QR code from the metadata.json address.

dweb://install?url=http://example.com/app1/metadata.json

Then use your phone's deep_link function to scan the QR code generated by the link above. After the scan is completed, you will jump to the interface for downloading the app.

• Huawei -> Smart Vision
• Xiaomi -> Xiaoai Vision
• oppo -> Use the system browser to scan the code
• vivo -> Jovi scan