Installation

There are two ways to install moonlight: through an experimental GUI installer, or manually building it yourself. Installs via the automatic launchers are heavily recommended for users. moonlight is currently experimental and is not suggested for end users. If you are not a developer, please refrain from installing moonlight at this time.

moonlight-installer

The moonlight installer automates the installation process for you, and is the recommended way of installing.

To use it, download and run the installer, download moonlight through it, and then patch a Discord installation. Discord installations are autodetected on your machine.

Manual installations

• Build moonlight.
• Go to your Discord install's resources folder.
• Rename the app.asar to _app.asar, and create an app folder. Discord will load the folder instead of the .asar now that it has been renamed.
• Create the following files:

resources/app/package.json:

{
  "name": "discord",
  "main": "./injector.js",
  "private": true
}

resources/app/injector.js:

require("/path/to/moonlight/dist/injector").inject(
  require("path").join(__dirname, "../_app.asar")
);

Adjust the /path/to/moonlight/dist to point to the dist folder in your locally cloned moonlight install.

After first launch, moonlight will create a config directory in the Electron appData path named moonlight-mod. Each Discord branch has its own .json file for configuration.