Nym is an open-source, decentralized and permissionless privacy system. It provides full-stack privacy, allowing other applications, services or blockchains to provide their users with strong metadata protection, at both the network level (mixnet), and the application level (anonymous credentials) without the need to build privacy from scratch.

Nym Connects sets up a SOCKS5 proxy for local applications to use.

Installation prerequisites - Linux / Mac

Yarn
NodeJS >= v16
Rust & cargo

Installation prerequisites - Windows

When running on Windows you will need to install c++ build tools
An easy guide to get rust up and running Installation
When installing NodeJS please use the current features version
Using a package manager like Chocolatey is recommended
Nym connect requires you to have Webview2 installed, please head to the Installer, this will ensure a smooth app launch

Installation

Inside the nym-connect directory, run the following command:

yarn install

Development mode

You can compile nym-connect in development mode by running the following command inside the nym-connect directory:

yarn dev

This will produce a binary in - nym-connect/target/debug/ named nym-connect

To launch, navigate to the directory and run the following command: ./nym-connect

Production mode

Run the following command from the nym-connect folder

yarn build

The output will compile different types of binaries dependent on your hardware / OS system. Once the binaries are built, they can be located as follows:

Binary output directory structure

**macos**
|
└─── target/release
|   |─ nym-connect
└───target/release/bundle/dmg
│   │─ bundle_dmg.sh
│   │─ nym-connect.*.dmg
└───target/release/bundle/macos/MacOs
│   │─ nym-connect
|
**Linux**
└─── target/release
|   │─  nym-connect
└───target/release/bundle/appimage
│   │─  nym-connect_*_.AppImage
│   │─  build_appimage.sh
└───target/release/bundle/deb
│   │─  nym-connect_*_.deb
|
**Windows**
└─── target/release
|   │─  nym-connect.exe
└───target/release/bundle/msi
│   │─  nym-connect_*_.msi

For instructions on how to release nym-connect, please see RELEASE.md.

Storybook

Run storybook with:

yarn storybook

And build storybook static site with:

yarn storybook:build