How to build MyMonero wallet for Windows?

Question

I would like to test the MyMonero lightweight wallet on Windows in its current state of development.

Can someone please walk me through how to package the source code to test the wallet on Windows? I understand that this is a pre-release and I don't plan to put any money in the wallet.

I found this. Ideally, I would just like a simpler and perhaps more verbose version of this.

Answer 1

The MyMonero desktop app is built with Electron. To build it you need to install NodeJS and NPM.

After installing Node, download the source code from GitHub, open command prompt and go to the directory containing the source code, run npm install to grab the dependencies and then npm start to launch the program.