Webui Readiness

[jbenet]

The webui is awesome. This issue is here to track close integration with the go-ipfs source code, and ensuring that when users install ipfs, they get the webui, and it all works out of the box.

• setup build script on webui repo to make a release bundle
• setup script to add webui hash to go-ipfs
• add the diag-net viewer to webui :D
• ensure all the alpha features are there and work properly. this means:
  • create a checklist for all features (@mappum)
  • walk through them and test them out (@whyrusleeping, @jbenet, @briantigerchow)
  • fix any issues / suggestions

[mappum]

Here is the latest webui: QmSHDxWsMPuJQKWmVA1rB5a3NX2Eme5fPqNb63qwaqiqSp

Feature Checklist

• Home
  • View based on ipfs id output
  • Geolocation based on current swarm addresses
• Connections
  • List of peers, based on output of ipfs swarm peers
  • Globe, showing a point for each peer
  • Peers in list expand to show detailed info (based on ipfs id <peerid>)
  • List updates without refreshing (try ipfs swarm connect <foo> and see it show up in the list)
• Files
  • Add files with "Add a file" button
  • Pinned files show up in list (based on ipfs pin ls output)
  • Other local blocks show up in list (based on ipfs pin ls --type=recursive output)
  • Lists update without refreshing (try ipfs pin add <foo> in your CLI while the webui is open)
• DAG
  • List of links in object, can be followed to explore the DAG structure
  • Display of data in object (as text)
  • "Raw" link loads data for that object from gateway
• Config
  • Shows contents of current config file (ipfs config show)
  • Shows JSON errors when editor contains invalid JSON
  • Saves new contents when "Save" button is pressed
• Log
  • Shows realtime event log output - (not pretty, I heard @travisperson made a cool viewer that we could use?)

[jbenet]

Btw, here's some feedback of when I sent this to a designer. probably worth holding off until the design returns, but: http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWutsjiuUYZ73KwXkbVFzBU7LVTDD4AExpzbJ1MZjYURk/mdown#/ipfs/QmbYW2hQ987H4RwnBgwx47UqNVi9eKob73FyC2qKeM7Sda/uinotes.md

[whyrusleeping]

For the logs, lets definetly use @travisperson's viewer, we have a hackathon this weekend where im sure he would love to finish working on it. Right Travis?? 😄

[dborzov]

How do you envision "setup script to add webui hash to go-ipfs"? Could it be something like:

• a harcoded hash for the default webUI version coming with each IPFS release
• include support for an IPFS config option "customWebUI", which allows for overwriting the default WebUI version. If the custom version is not resolved, the default version is shown
• go generate-based macros to update the hardcoded webUI hash (or maybe a shell script within Makefile looking up the latest release at protocol/web-ui repo)