remote.it Desktop

Cross-platform remote.it "initiator" desktop application

Overview

The desktop application serves one primary purpose which is to create a Peer-to-Peer connection to a remote.it device. It downloads and installs connectd on the current system and then runs connectd to establish a Peer-to-Peer connection.

Usage

• Your connections are persisted to ~/.remoteit/connections.json. You can add/remove connection manually if you'd like. Make sure to restart the desktop if you change this file.

Development

nvm install
nvm use
npm install
npm start

Click the system tray icon with command+option to open with dev tools.

Testing

Tests are written using Jest. End-to-end tests are in tests/e2e.

Setup

Copy the backend/.env.example file to backend/.env and then fill in the values.

End-to-End Tests

# in one tab:
npm start

# in another tab:
npm run test-e2e

Packaging

• Notarizing on Mac OS