brave/brave-core

Features

• Browser Build Systems - Provides a build system to compile a modified engine into a functional web browser across multiple platforms.
• Custom Browser Development - Provides a framework for modifying and compiling a specialized web browser based on the Chromium engine.
• Cross-Platform Build Systems - Implements an automated pipeline for compiling browser binaries and managing dependencies across multiple operating systems.
• Cross-Platform Build Pipelines - Provides an automated pipeline for compiling a modified browser engine into binaries across multiple operating systems.
• Dependency Lifecycle Management - Implements a system for synchronizing external references and testing unreleased packages before official release.
• Identity Anonymization - Implements a privacy-preserving identity layer using blind tokens to decouple payment identities from service usage.
• Privacy-Preserving Identity Layers - Implements a cryptographic layer using blind tokens to decouple user payment identities from service usage.
• Privacy-Preserving Identities - Implements blind tokens to decouple user payment identities from service usage to ensure anonymity.
• Source-Level Patch Integration - Integrates customizations into the base project by applying semantic patches to the source code before compilation.
• Upstream Source Patching - Manages custom code changes on top of a base project using semantic patches to maintain compatibility during updates.
• Semantic Patching Systems - Provides a system for applying and managing version-aware code patches to maintain customizations across upstream updates.
• Semantic Patching - Implements a semantic patching toolset to apply version-aware code changes to an upstream engine and base project.
• Browser Engine Testing - Provides targeted unit, browser, and type tests to verify modifications within the complex web engine.
• Browser Engine Build Frameworks - Provides a comprehensive set of tools for patching, building, and maintaining a modified browser based on Chromium.
• Dependency Vendors - Updates deep-level dependencies by refreshing external sources and reapplying custom patches to maintain security.
• Dependency Patching Utilities - Creates and applies patch files for third-party code to modify behavior within the build process.
• Development Workflow Automation - Provides a command-line environment to automate routine browser development tasks, dependency synchronization, and testing.
• Transitive Dependency Updates - Updates specific transitive dependencies or performs a full re-vendor of tools to maintain security and versioning.
• Dependency Override Managers - Allows replacing published package versions with local file paths to verify changes before official release.
• Custom Cryptographic Extensions - Provides a framework for implementing specialized encryption and cryptographic capabilities beyond the base engine offerings.
• Payment Identity Decoupling - Implements a privacy mechanism that separates payment identity from service usage via blind tokens.
• User Privacy Protection - Ensures service usage cannot be linked back to a user's payment identity through the use of blind tokens.
• Dependency and Configuration Synchronization - Synchronizes source code and sub-projects to specific references while refreshing external dependencies and applying patches.
• Test Execution and Orchestration - Orchestrates the execution of specific subsets of unit and browser tests to verify changes efficiently.
• Test File Selection - Enables running specific subsets of unit, browser, and type tests to verify changes across targets.
• Local Path Overrides - Allows overriding published package versions with local paths or repositories to verify changes before official release.
• Component-Based UI Frameworks - Provides a component-based UI bundling system for building web interfaces using a shared component library.
• Web Interface Components - Provides a development environment for building user interfaces using a component library and specialized bundler.

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