Patchwork is a decentralized sharing app. It was built for friends of the SSB project, to test basic functions. We use it as a test-bed for features, and for our own daily messaging.

Because SSB is a research project, you'll need to contact an SSB team member (in #scuttlebutt on Freenode) to get onto the network! That's our informal barrier to entry right now, since we're not prepared for lots of users yet.

Patchwork embeds Scuttlebot, so if you're running Patchwork, you don't need to run another scuttlebot server.

Install node v4.2 (you might like to use nvm).

npm install ssb-patchwork -g

or

git clone https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork.git
cd patchwork
npm install
npm run build:ui

# if installed globally
patchwork

or

# from the checkout directory
npm start

If it's your first time running patchwork, follow the on screen instructions to start a new identity and join a pub server.

• Building Patchwork
• Creating a Testing Environment, and Running Tests
• Patchwork Project Structure
• SSB Docs Repo