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How to run your Live App locally in Ledger Wallet

Goal: Run a local Live App in Ledger Wallet for development and testing.

Prerequisites

You have a dapp using wallet-api.
A Ledger Device to access Ledger Wallet.
Ledger Wallet Desktop installed. Download from the Ledger Wallet download page.

1. Create a manifest

A manifest is a .json file providing information about your Live App.

Create manifest.json at your project root:

{
  "$schema": "https://live-app-catalog.ledger.com/schema.json",
  "id": "replace-app-name",
  "name": "ReplaceAppName",
  "url": "http://localhost:3000/",
  "homepageUrl": "http://localhost:3000/",
  "platform": ["ios", "android", "desktop"],
  "apiVersion": "^2.0.0",
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "branch": "stable",
  "categories": ["ReplaceCatagories"],
  "currencies": "*",
  "content": {
    "shortDescription": { "en": "Desc" },
    "description": { "en": "Desc" }
  },
  "permissions": [
    "account.list",
    "account.receive",
    "account.request",
    "currency.list",
    "message.sign",
    "transaction.sign",
    "transaction.signAndBroadcast",
    "wallet.capabilities",
    "wallet.info",
    "wallet.userId"
  ],
  "domains": ["http://", "https://"],
  "visibility": "complete"
}